Ash Wednesday, a holiday in which those practicing receive ash on their foreheads in the shape of a cross, will take place ...

This year, the Jewish holiday of Passover begins before sundown on Saturday, April 12, 2025, and ends after nightfall on Sunday, April 20. The eight-day Jewish holiday of Passover commemorates the ...

"It's deeper than abstaining from ice cream," said Fr. Bill Swichtenberg of St. Mary Catholic Community in Appleton.

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 ...

Every year in February and March, you'll see people walking around with black smudges on their foreheads. There's a simple reason for it – it's Ash Wednesday, an important season for Christians. Ash ...

Standing among hundreds of people who had gathered Wednesday, Christian Hess, the coordinator for Indiana’s 50501 protest march, felt pride that so many Hoosiers answered the call to protest ...

"And the idea that they don’t get the help they need … is just disheartening.” Standing among hundreds of people who had gathered Wednesday, Christian Hess, the coordinator for Indiana’s 50501 protest ...

As spring moves into sight, the Christian Easter season is getting closer, and that starts with Ash Wednesday. However, this year's Easter season starts much later than usual. While Ash Wednesday ...

Easter is one of the most anticipated holidays of the year, with a season of religious observances ... long celebration actually leads up to Ash Wednesday. It's often seen as the final burst ...

On Wednesday, Christian staff working in HIV/AIDS were unsure what the exemption memo meant for their PEPFAR-funded work. Organizations on the ground received specific orders from the US to stop ...

Ashes are a symbol of penance. Not every Christian religion observes Ash Wednesday or Lent. It is most strongly associated with Catholicism, but some Lutherans, Methodists, Episcopalians ...