Central United Methodist Church invites the community to a celebration of Fat Tuesday with a traditional Mardi Gras meal of shrimp and crab gumbo, rice, French bread, and king cake as it works to ...

Each year, more than a million visitors travel to New Orleans to partake in the city’s world-famous Carnival celebrations.

Three parades will roll Thursday night in New Orleans with scores of masked riders on colorful floats. More processions will ...

For those not eating meat on Fridays during Lent, we've found some of the best spots across metro Detroit for a fish fry, ...

At 11:11 a.m. on Thursday, hundreds of thousands of carnival revelers took over the streets of the Rhineland in western ...

Pope Francis continued to improve from double pneumonia on Thursday, the Vatican reported, as he worked from his hospital ...

(AP Photo/John Locher) Meanwhile, an Atlanta-area pastor, the Rev. Jamal Bryant, organized a website called targetfast.org to ...

3:19).” Jesus prayed to prepare himself for the trials to follow. We use this time to deeply grieve over what our sin did to our sinless Savior: “Lent steers us to the cross where we contemplate our ...

Ash Wednesday will fall on March 5 this year, and begin Lent. Lent will run from March 5 to April 17 in 2025, ending the day before Good Friday. Easter will be celebrated on April 20 this year.

14, 2024. This year, Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent fall in March, almost a full month later. Here’s when Ash Wednesday, Lent, Good Friday and Easter 2025 are and why the dates they fall on ...