The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the ...

Listed by UNESCO as Intangible World Heritage, the country's Holy Week is one of the world’s most exuberant Easter celebrations ... worshippers carrying palm fronds and singing joyful ...

Easter is known as a "moveable feast," The Old Farmer's Almanac says. Here are dates to know for the 2025 holiday.

Pope Francis, who was admitted to a hospital in Rome for bronchitis, is in “fair” condition with a “respiratory tract ...

Mardi Gras — or Fat Tuesday — celebrations will precede Ash Wednesday, and the start of the Lenten season for 2025. Ash ...

In an enclosure shadowed by tall trees entangled among natural Florida greenery, Olan stood proudly behind metal wiring ...

Santa Semana – or Holy Week – in Spain is a big, BIG deal. Started in the 1600’s as a way for the “common folk” to understand ...

Key days leading up to Easter include Fat Tuesday on March 4, Ash Wednesday on March 5, Palm Sunday on April 13, and Good Friday on April 18.

Here’s a look at Easter and Holy Week. On Easter Sunday, Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion. It also marks the end of the 40-day period of ...

Holy Week is observed the week before Easter, it's known as the most sacred ... with processions and distribution of blessed palm leaves. These palm branches that symbolize goodness and victory ...