Although Ash Wednesday is not a Holy Day of Obligation in the Catholic church, this service -- which initiates the liturgical season of Lent -- is well-attended, according to Monsignor R. Mark ...

In the early half of the 20th century, beginning in 1917, Mexico’s government began persecuting Catholics. A new constitution outlawed Catholic teaching, banned religious orders, and claimed all ...

It was Ash Wednesday. Poplavskaya spent the whole day with a young Catholic priest, Father Kirill Bardonov, from a small town. She was about to finish gathering material when the preacher insisted ...

The town of Taybeh is the last entirely Christian town in the occupied West Bank, representing “a unique presence in the ...

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Rex Jenkins, 5, of Omaha, wears ash on his forehead on Ash Wednesday in a drive thru-style service at Countryside Community Church.

Alameda Church of Christ ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom pointed to the decree to highlight the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement ...