"It's deeper than abstaining from ice cream," said Fr. Bill Swichtenberg of St. Mary Catholic Community in Appleton.

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 ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday said it was the duty of the advocates-on-record to be “cautious and careful” in filing pleas and it would serve no purpose it they only lent their names to petitions. A ...

Ash Wednesday begins the Christian season of Lent. The 6-week period is a tectonic time of year leading up to Easter. What we know on date, meaning and more.

Faith leaders are urging more Black churches to join boycotts of companies that have rolled back diversity and inclusion ...

Before Easter arrives, many Christians of different denominations across Houston will participate in around 40 days of Lent – ...

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The obligation of observing this Lent, which, though introduced so imperceptibly ... as we find from Venerable Bede's history; into Italy, as appears from a diploma of Astolphus, king of the ...

Coca-Cola, Amazon, and Target are among the companies that have been subject to boycotts and are finding audiences on social media. One boycott, calling for an “economic blackout” on Feb. 28, was ...