Lent, the 40-day period of prayer and fasting before Easter, ends this Thursday, April 17, 2025. Holy Week, the most important week in Catholicism, includes Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, ...

Holy Week, the last of Lent, began on Palm Sunday and ends with Easter Sunday this weekend. See the final days and what they represent.

Holy Week kicked off this week with Palm Sunday on April 13. Here's the remaining significant dates for the week until Sunday ...

Holy Week unfolds for Christians with dates that vary from year to year. The purpose for the days observed by the faithful ...

Easter this year is on April 20, but before we get to Resurrection Sunday, there are seven days before, each with its own ...

Christians around the world will celebrate on the same day this year, a relative rarity. Pope Francis would like to make it ...

(Photo by Salar Arkan / CC BY-SA 4.0) On March 20, Iranians rang in the year 1404 of the Persian calendar, marking the astronomical moment of the spring equinox. Around the world, an estimated 300 ...

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In fact, there are dozens of spring holidays, observances, awareness weeks and seasonal observations to note on your 2025 calendar and we’ve got them all in this comprehensive list of April ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appeared Monday to be leaning toward a Catholic charitable organization pushing back against the state of Wisconsin in the latest religious rights case to ...