What is Ash Wednesday, Lent, Good Friday? Lent used to be less than 40 days. What to know
The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the ...
What is Ash Wednesday and the smudges on people's foreheads? What you should know
Every year in February and March, you'll see people walking around with black smudges on their foreheads. There's a simple reason for it – it's Ash Wednesday, an important season for Christians. Ash ...
Towns want NYS to consider waste-to-energy plants 'renewable" to protect them
The officials also want LIPA to hike the cost of power from the plants closer to what it pays for offshore-wind energy.
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Eternal Etna: New eruption ignites fiery spectacle in Sicily
On Monday, the first eruption of Etna this week occurred in Italy. In the following days, lava began to flow from the Bocca ...
Californians brace for flooding in areas torched by wildfires as atmospheric river covers West Coast
Ahead of the storm’s arrival, officials in Southern California distributed sandbags, prepositioned rescue swimmers and told ...
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Vatican publishes partial list of papal liturgical events during Lent
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican released a partial schedule of Pope Francis’ liturgical celebrations in March and early ...