All Christians recognize holy week, starting on Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter, and ending with Easter.

Catholics across Nicaragua are celebrating Holy Week under surveillance as the Sandinista regime prohibits public processions ...

A butter lamb has taken center stage on my family’s Easter table for as long as I can remember. Each year at Easter, my ...

Pope Francis on Monday signed a decree that recognized the 20th-century visionary’s “heroic virtues” and put him on the path ...

France s Roman Catholic Church is scheduled to baptize more than 10,000 adults on Easter Sunday, the highest number of new members reported in over 20 years ...

Catholics in Jerusalem marked Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week on April 13 with the blessing of the palms and Mass ...

Easter brings eggs and pastels, but what’s the meaning behind the holiday — and the other springtime religious observances?

“Like 800 people attending a weekday Mass on Thursday in Lent. Or 2,000 people attending one of the three Masses on Ash ...

Holy Week is the holiest week of the Greek Orthodox Church, symbolizing the passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The Catholic Church has put Antoni Gaudi, the designer of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica nicknamed "God's architect", ...

Pope Francis has approved the first step towards sainthood for Antoni Gaudi, the modernist architect behind Barcelona's ...

Catholic groups have criticized Spain's bishops for consenting to government redevelopment of a key national memorial complex near Madrid, amid fears of a continuing church decline acros ...