Now in its 8th year, the service at St. Mark’s Episcopal Parish gives busy commuters a way to mark the beginning of Lent.

The observance begins on Ash Wednesday, a day in which many Christians attend a church service and receive ashes in the shape ...

Multiple pews and pillars were burned and stained glass windows shattered by an alleged vandal on Ash Wednesday.

Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, officially marking the start of Lent, a 40-day period observed by many Christians worldwide ...

Fueled by youth searching for meaning in an uncertain world, Catholic influencers on social media have also emerged as ...

Pews were packed at an Ash Wednesday mass led by Miami’s Archbishop Thomas Wenski at Broward’s oldest Catholic Church earlier ...

Ash Wednesday is a holy day of prayer, fasting and almsgiving that marks the start of the six weeks of penitence before ...

A devotee with an ash cross on her forehead prays during Ash Wednesday rites March 5, 2025 at the Redemptorist Church in ...

New York’s Catholics observe the start of Lent throughout the city on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Today marks the beginning ...

As it has done for the last several years, St. Hugh of Lincoln Episcopal Church in Elgin has offered Christians a unique way ...

The church launched its drive-thru Ash Wednesday service eight years ago, taking part in an “Ashes to Go” campaign that urged taking church to the streets. “The church is very proud to be ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent for people of Christian faith. Each year, Catholics, Lutherans and other denominations around the world observe the 40-day period of self-sacrifice and ...