When it comes to pulling Catholics into pews, Christmas rites top the list – followed by a tie between Easter, the Christian calendar’s most joyous day, and Ash Wednesday, which is the most ...

Easter is an important day for those of the Christian faith. It can fall on a different date from year to year, depending on ...

Both religions’ traditions encourage giving up physical things, such as food, drink, pleasures or indulgences, in order to ...

Others include Ash Wednesday and Palm Sunday ... Of the four canonical Gospels, each has a version of the Passion, or final period of Christ's life. While the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and ...

In many Catholic parishes, people are gathering for Friday night fish fries because they abstain from eating meat on Fridays during Lent. In Muslim homes, people are gathering every evening ...

Both religions’ traditions encourage giving up physical things, such as food, drink, pleasures or indulgences, in order to ...

He quoted a verse from the Quran that prescribed fasting ... O’Malley said Catholics fast for Lent by abstaining from eating meat on Ash Wednesday, which falls 40 days before Easter, and Fridays ...

Bible sales in Britain have surged by a remarkable ... Ex-Royal Chaplain blasts King and Starmer for failing to acknowledge Ash Wednesday: 'Complete silence for Britain's Christians' This compares ...