Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you see people walking around with black smudges on their foreheads Wednesday, it's there for a reason: Ash Wednesday is March ...

This is the week of Ash Wednesday, a solemn day of fasting and reflection that signals the start of Lent, the most penitential season of the church calendar for Catholics and many other Christians. On ...

Lent invites reflection. For 40 days, many Christians fast, pray, and examine their lives in preparation for Easter. But for Black Christians — whose faith traditions were shaped by enslavement, ...

For many Christians worldwide, the weeks leading up to Easter are a time of fasting, solemn contemplation and abstaining from certain luxuries and foods. Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a ...

YORK, Pa. — The 40-day Lenten season, which commemorates the time Jesus spent fasting in the desert, begins with today with Ash Wednesday. Many Catholics observe Lent by refraining from eating meat on ...

Every year before Easter Sunday, Christians worldwide engage in a time of solemn contemplation known as Lent. Lent is a ...

Ash Wednesday is March 5, which marks the beginning of Lent for Christians. Lent is a time to prepare for the celebration of Easter (April 20 this year). The three pillars of Lent are prayer, fasting ...