Lent is a 40-day season observed by many Christians that begins with Ash Wednesday and leads into the final weeks of the ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis increased his physical therapy with his condition remaining stable on Wednesday, marking the start of Lent by receiving ashes on his forehead and calling the parish priest in ...

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and marks a 40-day period of fasting and religious observance.

In a few days, Christians will begin practicing the 40-day season of prayer, fasting and giving, known as Lent. The period is held each spring as a preparation for the resurrection of Jesus Christ on ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Catholic Lenten Season starts on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18 this year, which means the first fish-fry ...

The Lenten season is upon Catholics. To mark the beginning of the Lenten season, or the 40-day period prior to Easter, Catholic Cemeteries of Long Island held a Stations of the Cross prayer service in ...

Christians will celebrate Ash Wednesday is tomorrow, also marking the beginning of the 40-day Lenten season. Christians have observed Lent all across the globe for more than 1,000 years. The first ...

Mexican painter Roberto Marquez places a painting of Pope Francis he made outside the Agostino Gemelli hospital in Rome, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope ...

Here's what date Easter 2026 will fall on, when the Easter season begins and ends, and why the date of Easter Sunday moves from year to year.

Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, falls on March 5 in 2025. The date of Ash Wednesday changes each year because it depends on the lunar cycles that determine the date of Easter. Christians around the ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis increased his physical therapy with his condition remaining stable on Wednesday, marking the start of Lent by receiving ashes on his forehead and calling the parish priest in ...