Every 33 years, the stars align — or rather, the calendars — to present a truly remarkable event: the sacred seasons of Lent and Ramadan overlap.

Super Eagles and Nottingham Forest star Taiwo Awoniyi sponsors Iftar meals for fasting Muslims and Christians observing Lent, ...

In many Catholic parishes, people are gathering for Friday night fish fries because they abstain from eating meat on Fridays during Lent. In Muslim homes, people are gathering every evening ...

Hopefully when this article is published, March will be heading out like a lamb, or so the old saying goes. We will usher in April with its showers and then May with its flowers… ok, I’ll stop with ...

Entering this Lenten season, the words prayer and fasting have taken on a deeper significance as I strive to make this Lent ...

Millions around the world continue to observe the 40-day period of Lent. Here's why some don't eat chicken on Fridays.

When Brewer took her own walk on the wild side for several years as an angry and disaffected youth, her grandmother was ...

Over 700 S1 to S3 children were Pilgrims of Hope and took part in the Big Lenten Walk to raise money for SCIAF.

Caring young people at St Columba’s High in Gourock got together to promote SCIAF's WEE BOX to help boys and girls in ...

The faithful prepare for Easter through rigorous fasting, fervent prayer ... by a “pre-Lent” period or Triodion. This period allows the faithful to gradually give up animal products.

Both religions’ traditions encourage giving up physical things, such as food, drink, pleasures or indulgences, in order to ...