New Yorker's and visiting christians showed up to St. Patrick’s Cathedral and other neighboring churches to have ash smudged on their foreheads for Ash Wednesday a solemn day of fasting and ...

Here are five traditional hymns commonly sung at church services during the season of Lent, including their historical ...

Christian faithful perform Ash Wednesday service in Rome without Pope Francis. Roman cardinals and clergyman performed the Ash Wednesday mass in Rome as Pope Francis continues to battle pneumonio in ...

Clowns complete with red noses and tutus sung Carnival songs to sick children on the pediatric ward of a Rio de Janeiro ...

Ironically, it’s World Happiness Day and the widow of the great comedian Sir Ken Dodd is chuckling as she sits in the library ...

Bernie Sanders had transgender singer Laura Jane Grace perform at his rally singing “Does your God have a big fat d***” ...

“Don’t call me. Call King Momo until Ash Wednesday comes,” Mayor Eduardo Paes, wearing shorts and a Panama hat, told Carnival revelers as drummers and veteran members of local samba schools celebrated ...

"Children would go 'Shroving' or 'Lent-crocking' on Shrove Tuesday or the night before, knocking on their neighbours’ doors and singing [songs asking ... denominations, Ash Wednesday is the ...

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A group of religious leaders organized a morning prayer service for Wu, marking Ash Wednesday with scripture readings and songs at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. And on City Hall plaza ...

Ciara celebrated Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago, and her husband Russell Wilson couldn't get enough of her costume.

Born from the ingenuity of enslaved African people determined to survive in the face of brutality, the tradition has survived over the years with much of the same song, dance, and even mockery ...