Area houses of worship are invited to share their news for our free weekly listings. Email information to Mercury Editor Tony ...

Father Tomaž Majcen, a Conventual Franciscan, is the only Catholic parish priest in Greenland, working alongside two fellow Franciscan friars. OSV News asked the Slovenian-born Fat ...

Childhood memories of giving up candy or sitting through weekly Stations of the Cross come immediately to mind. Words like ...

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 ...

Lent is the time before Easter during which the faithful abstain and fast in remembrance of the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made on Calvary. It is a 40-day time of preparation before Easter, the ...

An increasing number of women are finding inspiration and solace in iconography, Abigail Frymann Rouch discovers ...

DEVOUT believers join retreats every Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Black Saturday, commemorating our Lord's Last Supper, his ...

Although a recent study reveals that Lent is largely ignored by many Christians in the United States, there is a trend among ...

Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., made history this year: Thanks to a lawsuit, the church controls the trademark to the far-right group known as the Proud Boys.

On Ash Wednesday, March 5, ashes were spread across people’s foreheads, and the person spreading the ashes said, “Remember ...