Even though most Christian festivals are celebrated throughout the world, there are few festivals which are celebrated only in some countries or sometimes only in a particular city or area of a one ...

The former folk arts coordinator at the Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, West Virginia, for 25 years, is the seventh West Virginian to receive this lifetime award. He travels to the nation’s capital ...

Pentecost, also known as Whitsun, is a Christian festival which always falls 50 days after Easter and is a time when ...

Winter’s roots sweeten in the oven as the high heat condenses and intensifies their flavors.

“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.” One USDA employee called the email “grotesque” and said the wording made ...

Easter Sunday has arrived. Here’s what to know about the religious holiday, including its history and why it’s celebrated today. Dates vary each year based on the lunar calendar. Easter falls on the ...

Easter will be celebrated this year on Sunday, April 5. Though widely associated with the Easter Bunny, colorful eggs, and baskets of chocolate, it's a significant holiday for members of the Christian ...

On paper, Catholicism looks like it’s having a moment. The global Catholic population has surpassed 1.4 billion. Eucharistic processions are drawing record crowds. And last summer, more than 50,000 ...

How does a person fast on Good Friday? Like Ash Wednesday, Good Friday is a day where Catholics are obliged to fast and stay abstinent throughout the day until midnight. Those obligated to fast are ...

Seeing Ash Wednesday on the calendar used to bring up many feelings, but joy was not one of them. Perceiving Lent through a worldly lens, I approached it as a season of deprivation. It arrives at a ...

Lent is traditionally observed as a 40-day season of prayer and fasting observed by Christians before Easter. Lent starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Thursday, the day before Good Friday, in ...