Now in its 8th year, the service at St. Mark’s Episcopal Parish gives busy commuters a way to mark the beginning of Lent.

The observance begins on Ash Wednesday, a day in which many Christians attend a church service and receive ashes in the shape ...

Multiple pews and pillars were burned and stained glass windows shattered by an alleged vandal on Ash Wednesday.

A church in Los Angeles is asking for prayers after it was vandalized on Ash Wednesday, a holy day in Catholicism. The ...

Fueled by youth searching for meaning in an uncertain world, Catholic influencers on social media have also emerged as ...

Ash Wednesday is a holy day of prayer, fasting and almsgiving that marks the start of the six weeks of penitence before ...

As it has done for the last several years, St. Hugh of Lincoln Episcopal Church in Elgin has offered Christians a unique way ...

The church launched its drive-thru Ash Wednesday service eight years ago, taking part in an “Ashes to Go” campaign that urged taking church to the streets. “The church is very proud to be ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent for people of Christian faith. Each year, Catholics, Lutherans and other denominations around the world observe the 40-day period of self-sacrifice and ...