Easter, the greatest festival of the Christian church, com­memorates the resurrection of Jesus. It is a movable feast; that is, it is not always held on the same date. In AD 325 the church council of ...

During Lent, some Christians give up a pleasure, such as sugary treats, wine or television. Mardi Gras is also tied to Easter ...

For 40 days every spring, Christians observe the season of repentance and fasting known as Lent. In New Orleans, the change from Mardi Gras to Lent is striking.

Both festivals - Mardi Gras in New Orleans or Rio de Janeiro Carnival - fire up bucket lists like few other events around the ...

Christmas drew in roughly 68 percent. The bridge between Ash Wednesday and Easter is the penitential season of Lent. “Participating in Ash Wednesday, which leaves a black cross on the forehead ...

South Africans are expressing outrage over what they perceive as offensive imagery during the “Zulu” parade at the recent Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, USA. The annual carnival, which ended ...

In the Christian season of Lent we pray, contemplate, and try to remain mindful of God’s blessings of abundance, and the challenges of following God’s call. Lent is a 40-day period before Easter Day.

From Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, Christians around the world observe Lent, a 40-day period of prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Lent is often associated with individuals’ personal abstinence from a ...

All one has to do is look at what the Mardi Gras Pass has done and continues to do. It has destroyed fisheries, estuaries and accelerated land loss. There was a study done (I believe around 2012 ...

The report also calls for a permanent federal SEAR 1 threat designation for Mardi Gras, the highest federal event threat rating, to ensure additional security resources are allocated to the city.

Comme l’ensemble des indices européens, le CAC 40 démarre dans le vert ce mardi. SITTIPONG - stock.adobe.com Ce mardi, les Bourses européennes ont ouvert dans le vert pour la première fois ...

Between 1801 and 1823, Abbe Dubois established a St Mary’s Chapel, the first Catholic church in Bangalore Cantonment, in an area called Blackpully (today’s Shivajinagar). We’re in the middle ...