The U.K.-based group Christian Concern has begun a Lent prayer campaign urging supporters to devote daily prayer time toward ...

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

Fastnachts, German doughnuts dusted with cinnamon or powdered sugar, are typically only eaten on Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday ...

Here is a guide to churches and nonprofits offering dine-in and carryout fish fries on Fridays this Lenten season.

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 flour war celebrates Clean Monday – the beginning of the Greek Orthodox Lent. Like Pancake Day in Britain, this is a way ...

In 2024, Ash Wednesday arrived early in the season, falling on Feb. 14, which is also Valentine's Day. This year, in 2025, ...

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

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

It is a time to express devotion to spiritual matters rather than more corporeal pleasures, and some people are inspired by the arrival of Lent to make a voluntary, more contemporary, sacrifice, such ...

For baby boomers who grew up attending Catholic school – or weekly classes on Sundays – in the 1960s and 1970s, the season of ...

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