Fat Tuesday — Mardi Gras in French — is celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday. This year, Mardi Gras falls on March 4. The ...

Ash Wednesday is the first day of the season of Lent that leads up to Good Friday and Easter. What to know about the day.

The faithful are encouraged to pray, practice fasting, abstinence and almsgiving on Ash Wednesday, which signals the start of ...

Ash Wednesday begins the 40-day Lenten season, marked by prayer, penance, and fasting. Different Christian denominations ...

Lent begins with Ash Wednesday and ends with Holy Saturday which precedes Easter Sunday. Check here the date of Lent 2025 and ...

Here’s all that you need to know about the 40-day period of prayer, service and abstinence observed by Christians all over ...

Also known as the Day of Ashes, this traditional day of repentance for Christians, and observed by various denominations, ...

The Lenten season in the Philippines begins on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025, marking the start of 47 days of spiritual ...

Mardi Gras or 'Fat Tuesday' is here, while Ash Wednesday will kick off the start of Lent and 'fish' Fridays. Here are the ...

On Wednesday, many churches will mark the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent by holding Ash Wednesday services, in ...

Folks at Easton Baking Co. in Easton work all day and into the night preparing for the annual Fastnaucht Day celebration.

Christians begin Lent, a 40-day period of preparation leading up to Easter—a tradition dating back to the early centuries of ...