Ash Wednesday is officially here! The Christian season of Lent — the 6-week period that leads up to Easter — starts. What we know on dates, meanings and more.

As the Mardi Gras celebration ends, so begins the solemn period of Lent observed in many Christian circles and denominations. Timed weeks in advance of Easter Sunday, or the day of Jesus' resurrection ...

Lent is a 40-day season of prayer, fasting and giving, held in preparation for the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. Lent is 40 days long to represent the 40 days that Jesus spent fasting and ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent for people of Christian faith. Each year, Catholics, Lutherans and other denominations around the world observe the 40-day period of self-sacrifice and ...

Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, Christianity's 40-day season of prayer and fasting leading up to Jesus ...

Many worshipers will receive the marking of the cross in ash on their foreheads on Wednesday, meant to show that a person belongs to Jesus Christ.

Lent, a solemn season in the Christian liturgical calendar, is often perceived as a time for individual repentance and prayer ...

Hands clasped in joy, face framed by a wimple, she could with equal élan propose that Dutch Golden Age painter Gerard ter ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a 40-day period of fasting and prayer observed by Christians. The 40 days of Lent represent the time Jesus spent fasting in the desert. This year ...