Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lent, one of the five seasons on the Catholic liturgical calendar, begins this week and marks a 40‑day period of reflection and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This period signals 40 days of spiritual preparation leading up to Easter. On this day, Christians typically attend church ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — The fast, initiated by Veterans for Peace, an anti-war organization, and a dozen Christian organizations, intends to raise awareness of the famine looming over Gaza. NEW YORK (RNS) — ...

They are in the middle of a 40-day fast to amplify the dire conditions that have gripped Gaza for months. "Our purpose is to feel in our own bodies some small part of the deprivation the Palestinians ...

A pastor has sadly died while embarking on a 40-day fasting to allegedly break the record of Jesus on the biblical Mount of Olives. The BBC reports that the Mozambican man of God could only do ...

Lent, one of the five seasons on the Catholic liturgical calendar, begins this week and marks a 40‑day period of reflection and repentance leading up to Easter. The season calls for Catholics to ...

Ash Wednesday, a solemn day of fasting and reflection, marks the commencement of Lent, the most penitential season in the Christian calendar for Catholics and many other denominations. This period ...