Ash Wednesday can take place anywhere from Feb. 4 through March 10, and this year, it falls on the earlier side.

Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, Christianity's 40-day season of prayer, fasting and giving in preparation for Jesus ...

On Wednesday, many Christians will show up to work with ashes smudged on their foreheads. Many more will head to church on their lunch break or after work to receive a cross of ashes on their face.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Ash Wednesday will look and feel a bit different this year, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Archdiocese of Chicago released a video showing two approved methods of applying ashes ...

As it has done for the last several years, St. Hugh of Lincoln Episcopal Church in Elgin offered Christians a unique way to start the Lenten season by dispensing ashes via a drive-thru lane rather ...

OR BY CAR. PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE PARTICIPATING IN ASH WEDNESDAY, REGARDLESS OF DENOMINATION. IT KIND OF MIGHT HAVE ITS ROOTS IN CATHOLICISM, BUT IT IS CERTAINLY NOT UNIQUE TO CATHOLICISM.

Families throughout Blawnox and nearby communities flocked to St. Edward Church to receive ashes on Ash Wednesday. Pews were packed at the Catholic church along Walnut Street that evening as the Rev.

Vehicles were moving through the Ashes to Go line Wednesday at St. Barnabus Episcopal Church in Brackenridge quicker than a Starbucks drive-thru. The program began at noon and within 30 minutes had ...