About 100 Christian protesters from several denominations praying for a cease-fire in Israel and Gaza gathered outside the White House on Ash Wednesday (Feb. 14) for a Catholic Mass and ecumenical ...

It begins with Ash Wednesday, marked by Catholics and some Protestant denominations with special services and fasting. Ash Wednesday also marks the first day of Lent, a 40-day period of fasting ...

Many things characterize the season of Lent, including that it be 40 days of penance and renewal in following Jesus and living as missionary disciples for our world.

Lent should be less about “what we do” and more about walking with Christ in the desert, allowing our hearts and the hearts of our children and grandchildren to draw closer to Jesus through deeper ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The leader of southeastern Michigan's Catholics stood in the aisle at a historic church in downtown Detroit on Wednesday afternoon ...

As Lent began on Ash Wednesday (March 5), Catholic women frustrated over being disenfranchised by the church despite promises of greater recognition are going on strike, withholding numerous services ...

When Ali Srour was a kid, Ramadan and isolation came hand in hand. As the only Muslim family in the neighborhood, Srour ...