The Roots of Faith in Kerala The Christians of Kerala, especially the Syro-Malabar community, trace their roots back nearly ...

Christmas Eve, or the Eve of the Nativity of Christ, is the culmination of a 40—day fast, a day of strict abstinence and ...

Despite their seemingly secular modern-day iteration — featuring wine, chocolate or other products — Advent calendars continue to carry the spiritual foundation of the season.

Q: My dad gives up chocolate every year for both Lent and Advent. I always tell him that this is weird and that we're not supposed to give things up for Advent, only Lent. Which one of us is right ...

Advent's Lent-like waiting period is exactly why churches do not immediately whip out Christmas trees at the end of Ordinary ...

I grew up not appreciating liturgy. Morris Chapel was a Methodist (now a United Methodist) church in northern Indiana and I grew up there. My family had been in that congregation for five generations.

A pedestrian gives money to a homeless man sitting outside St. Francis of Assisi Church in New York City. Almsgiving, donating money or goods to the poor and performing other acts of charity, is one ...

MIAMI — Packed pews, rollicking singing and emotional devotions have marked Lent worship services at Notre Dame d'Haiti, the Catholic church at the heart of the largest Haitian diaspora in the United ...

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – A leading Catholic nun in Africa has made the case for economic justice, urging the Catholic Church in Africa to use the Lenten period to “engage in economic decolonization, ...

The Lenten season is upon Catholics. To mark the beginning of the Lenten season, or the 40-day period prior to Easter, Catholic Cemeteries of Long Island held a Stations of the Cross prayer service in ...

A twist on the Friday Fish Fry, the Byzantine parish serves up pirohi, halushki and “eggs.” Epiphany Mall, the name for the Lenten transformation of the parish hall at Epiphany of Our Lord Byzantine ...

(RNS) — With a Catholic clergy Lenten dance trend, a callout by pastor and Sen. Raphael Warnock and a prominent place in sermons by Black pastors, Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ is having a religious ...