"All Christian traditions can appreciate Easter for what it is, and I think the preparation season is a really good ...

The faithful trudged up the hill to Mater Dolorosa Passionist Retreat Center on the first Ash Wednesday after the ... St. Paul of the Cross fountain, and Stations of the Cross were damaged.

A young woman receives ashes marking Ash Wednesday ... marked with an ashen cross on camera as they entered Lent. A long line during Mass to receive ashes on Ash Wednesday on March 5, 2025 in ...

A church in Los Angeles is asking for prayers after it was vandalized on Ash Wednesday, a holy day in Catholicism. The vandalism occurred at Our Mother of Good Counsel church in the Los Feliz ...

A couple was mysteriously burned on the forehead after receiving the mark of the cross on Ash Wednesday. Sara Heloísa Sousa and her boyfriend Luan Jackson from Brazil shared their stories after ...

Many Christians attend church services on Ash Wednesday and receive ashes on their forehead in the sign of the cross. In the early Christian church, Lent was initially observed over six weeks ...

MUMBAI, India – A rally was held by Islamist radicals on March 5 in Indonesia protesting Catholic worship taking place at a public social center. The protest took place in Arcamanik in West Java ...

The Diocese of Kafanchan in Nigeria is paying tribute to Father Sylvester Okechukwu, a diocesan priest who was murdered on Ash Wednesday ... Kenyan journalist with a background in digital and ...

Deacon Joe DesMaris, foreground, uses ashes to make the sign of the cross on Gwen Torfin's forehead while her niece Eloise Essen watches on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, at St. Francis of Assisi ...

The Rev. Marion Phipps provides the Ash Wednesday services and offers each ... The practice of placing ashes on the forehead in the shape of a cross is a symbolic reminder that Christians need ...

OBSERVE ASH WEDNESDAY. TODAY, MANY CATHOLICS IN THE SACRAMENTO REGION ARE AMONG THOSE TAKING PART IN THE RITUALS. KCRA 3’S DENEEKA HILL WAS AT THE CATHEDRAL OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT IN DOWNTOWN ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Holy Cross Catholic Church in Santa Barbara took Ash Wednesday to the streets. For the second consecutive year, the church hosted a drive-thru Ash Wednesday service on ...