Ash Wednesday, in most Christian denominations, is the beginning of the Lenten season leading up to Easter Sunday. It is observed with a service where the faithful are marked with ashes. Many adults, ...

Wednesday, Feb. 18, is a Christian holy day called Ash Wednesday and marks the beginning of Lent, the 40 days leading up to ...

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

Allentown Bishop Alfred A. Schlert places ashes on the foreheads of students during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Cathedral of St. Catharine of Siena in Allentown.

Church leaders were allowed inside the Broadview ICE Detention Facility on Wednesday to offer Ash Wednesday sacraments to detainees for the first time.

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich told immigrants that Trump administration deportation efforts had acquainted them with Ash ...

More than two dozen people sang hymns, prayed and protested on an Oxnard street corner on Feb. 18. Many wore ashes in the ...

An off-duty Sacramento detective intervened during an Ash Wednesday school mass, detaining a "suspicious person." ...