With so many fun Easter traditions—like decorating Easter eggs, munching on jelly beans from your Easter basket and gathering with family on the big day—it’s easy to see why Easter is such a popular ...

Lent is one of the most important traditions observed by tens of millions of Christians every year across the globe in preparation for Easter Sunday. Officially, the season of reflection begins on Ash ...

It's Ash Wednesday, the start of the Lent and fish Friday traditions. Ash Wednesday is a day of repentance, marked by ashes being placed on a worshiper's forehead in the shape of a cross by a priest, ...

For non-Christians and some types of Christians, the coming season can be confusing. What is Lent? Do I have to give up chocolate, or drinking? Why do people have ashes on their foreheads? For 40 days ...

Lent begins this week with the observation of Ash Wednesday, one of the most important religious observations each year for Roman Catholics and other Christian groups. The day also starts a religious ...

A young woman prays during Ash Wednesday Mass at Jesus the Divine Word Church in Huntingtown, Md., in this March 6, 2019, file photo. (CNS photo/Bob Roller) “What should I do for Lent?” That’s the ...

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WASHINGTON — This story from The Conversation is by Religion and Ethics Editor Molly Jackson. Foreheads smudged with the sign of the cross are the most visible sign of Ash Wednesday, which begins the ...

Across the world Wednesday, you may find people with ash marks on their foreheads and talking about what they will be giving up for the next 46 days. It may appear odd, but it is a mark people that ...