The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the ...

Lent 2025: when does it start and why do Christians observe it? - Deciding what to give up for Lent is a personal choice, ...

Easter this year will be in late April, on Sunday, April 20. Easter Sunday sometimes falls in late April, because the holiday ...

Mardi Gras in New Orleans, has been in full swing since Jan. 6 and will close with a final celebration on March 4 with a Fat Tuesday celebration.

Easter falls on the first Sunday after the full moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox. This year, Easter is Sunday, ...

Climate change and disease have resulted in a shortage of cocoa – and chocolate prices have surged as a result. It’s a bittersweet taste of things to come, warns James Moore ...

Wesley Hill’s small volume about Easter is a beautiful and useful invitation to be shocked anew by the central event of our faith.

Unlike other holidays, the date that Easter Sunday falls on changes year to year and with it the dates of Ash Wednesday, Lent and associated holidays such as Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday.

By Michael M. Canaris Astute churchgoers likely recently noted that the weekend of Jan. 18-19 marked the Second Sunday in ...

The countdown to Easter, adds to the mounting pressure on chocolate producers and businesses. To retain appeal with their audiences, brands need to find formulation and pricing solutions that satisfy ...

Lent ends with Holy Week and Easter Sunday, an important day in the Christian calendar that honors the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion on the cross, per BBC.