Residents at Apostolic Christian Home of Roanoke enjoyed a Merrilee Dance Performance and Mardi Gras festivities.

Over a billion Catholics worldwide and a million in the Archdiocese of Atlanta ushered in the start of Lent while Pope Francis remained hospitalized in a precarious condition.

Ash Wednesday Prayer Vigil outside the Ministry of Defence MoD) took place yesterday under a sunny blue sky. (This event is ...

No Faith in Fossil Fuels' service at St John's, Waterloo, in South London was an inspirational occasion at a time when the ...

Rev. Martin Marty died last week at the age of 97. A prolific writer, teacher and preacher, he was the kind of Christian who gave Christianity a good name. When I interviewed him in 1997, he was ...

Ash Wednesday is on March 5. It marks the first day of Lent, a period of reflection, fasting and prayer leading up to Easter that many of the Christian faith observe, according to Christianity.com.

England men's busy year in 2025 ends with Ashes series in Australia; Ben Stokes' Test side also play home matches against Zimbabwe and India; white-ball assignments for Jos Buttler's men include ...

Next week, the Church steps into Lent — a six-week spiritual journey that gives us the opportunity to draw closer to God. That means we will be placing ashes on our foreheads in the shape of the cross ...

The practice of Lent, which begins March 5 with Ash Wednesday, goes back centuries. Using ashes to mark the foreheads of believers is widely embraced as a visible reminder of one's mortality ...

It was only in 1091, however, that their use was ritualized. Pope Urban II decreed the use of ashes to mark the beginning of a 40-day season of Lent, a time when Christians imitate Christ’s 40-day ...