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 ...

Soon millions of Christians will be taking 40 days to contemplate the last days of Jesus Christ before the celebration of ...

Ash Wednesday begins the Christian season of Lent. The 6-week period is a tectonic time of year leading up to Easter. What we ...

Here’s when Ash Wednesday, Lent, Good Friday and Easter 2025 are and why the dates they fall on change every year. Easter ...

Lent starts Wednesday, March 5, and runs through April 17, 2025. In the Christian church, Lent is a period of spiritual ...

This Lent season, Christian charity Stewardship is relaunching its generosity challenge, 40acts, in partnership with Gospel ...

Fasnacht Day is celebrated every year just before the season of Lent begins. A lot of people give up something to make a sacrifice during Lent prior to Easter. What ...

Lent (a season of spiritual renewal) came early this year. Tony Campolo tells a parable of a boring, little town that decided to hold a footrace. One man fell to his knees, crying, ‘I have crossed the ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – With the Lenten season right around the corner, Saint Paul United Methodist Church in Lincoln is ...

marked the day bakeries would use up all their rich, decadent ingredients ahead of the fasting of Lent. Here's everything to know about the holiday. Mardi Gras season began Jan. 6, the Epiphany ...

It's often seen as the final burst of excitement before Lent begins ... A common sign of the season is seeing parishioners with ash on their foreheads. The ashes used on Ash Wednesday are from ...