Learn what Ash Wednesday means, why people get ashes on their foreheads, and how the tradition marks the start of Lent.

Ash Wednesday is the first day of the season of Lent that leads up to Good Friday and Easter. What to know about the day.

Ash Wednesday, in most Christian denominations, is the beginning of the Lenten season leading up to Easter Sunday. It takes ...

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

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Faithful carry a wooden platform with a statue of Jesus of Nazareth, wearing a tunic created by weavers at the Maria Auxiliadora embroidery workshop, during a Lenten season procession in Antigua, ...

The public is invited to an Ash Wednesday prayer service at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18, at the HaysMed Chapel, 2200 Canterbury ...