It’s entirely possible that if you’re traveling out and about today, you’ll run across somebody wearing ashes on their ...

A Catholic priest was kidnapped on Tuesday night in Kaduna state, Nigeria, where Fulani herdsmen and other Islamic extremist ...

Christians from the Catholic faith in Tamale received ashes on Wednesday in the shape of a cross on their foreheads, signifying dust, grief, humility and repentance. This holy Mass service on Ash ...

The Lenten season that began on Wednesday, normally one of introspection and personal spiritual observances, has become a ...

Thousands of Northeast Wisconsinites headed to church for Ash Wednesday. St. Raphael the Archangel Catholic Church in Oshkosh held four masses on Wednesday. Deacon ...

Believers — including Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Episcopalians and Lutherans — put ashes on their foreheads as an outward symbol of their penitence. Members of Utah’s predominant religion, The Church ...

With a solemn mark of ashes on their foreheads, worshippers across Sonoma County gathered to observe Ash Wednesday, the start ...

Today on the Gonzaga University campus, the foreheads of students and others are adorned with gray crosses. The crosses are ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - It was not the typical Ash Wednesday at Hollywood Presbyterian Church. Catholics were invited to come in ...

While many gathered today to receive ashes, a symbol of faith, worshippers in North Beach also lifted up special prayers for Pope Francis.

Other historians say around the the year 1000, a priest named Aelfric said members of the church should put ashes upon their ...

In an effort to bring faith beyond the walls of the church, Connection Christian Church took to the streets on Ash Wednesday, ...