Lent ends with Holy Week and Easter Sunday, an important day in the Christian calendar that honors the life, death and ...
Easter will be in late April this year, making it one of the latest possible dates for the holiday. Here's how the date for ...
According to the Bible, this happened when Jesus entered Jerusalem for the last time before his crucifixion, signifying a symbolic cleansing of the 'house of God' right before his own sacrifice.
According to Christian teachings, Jesus was crucified, died, and was buried and on the third day after his death — Easter ...
On the first day of Lent, the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., will host an exhibit on the Shroud of ...
People who observe Lent do so to honor what is said in the Bible to be Jesus' 40 days fasting in the desert before his baptism. They also observe the holiday season in preparation for Easter.