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 ...

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 ...

On January 26th, 2025, TikToker [1] @cesarorduna21 posted a video, showing a man splayed out on the floor with a POV caption reading, "POV: you saw Ash Trevino's story," gaining over 39,700 likes in ...

Ash Wednesday and Lent happen this year. This year, Easter Sunday is observed on Sunday, April 20. Easter is the holiest day in the Christian calendar, observing the day Jesus Christ resurrected ...

Ash Wednesday and Lent happen this year. This year, Easter Sunday is observed on Sunday, April 20. Easter is the holiest day in the Christian calendar, observing the day Jesus Christ resurrected ...

Spring is around the corner, which means the return of the Christian season of Lent. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the 40-day period in which Christians worldwide observe a period of ...