The countdown to the Orthodox Easter is set to begin on March 3, when Greece celebrates “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean ...

The countdown to the Orthodox Easter, or Pascha, the most important religious feast of the year, is set to begin on March 3, ...

Lent starts on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Holy Saturday, just before Easter Sunday. The word "Lent" comes from the word "lecten" which is Anglo-Saxon meaning "spring" and refers to the lengthening ...

Lent is the time before Easter during which the faithful abstain and fast in remembrance of the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made on Calvary. It is a 40-day time of preparation before Easter ...

Amidst the struggles and the backdrop of a mixed-religious family—his father a Muslim and his mother a Christian—the seeds of ...

USA Today adds that during Lent, Catholics and Christians will give up something they enjoy or something they feel like they should stop. Many Catholics also abstain from eating meat on Fridays ...

The words of this hymn, sung at Vespers on the first day of Great Lent, challenge us to take a deeper look ... Let us strive to incorporate all that is "true and acceptable" to God in our lives during ...

The collection of prayers, readings, and hymns is not on the bestseller lists now ... Though the fragment has been matched with a little-known Christian chant still sung in some Anglican churches ...

The collection of prayers, readings, and hymns is not on the bestseller lists ... chant still sung in some Anglican churches during Lent today called Cultor Dei, memento ("Servant of God, remember ...