An important religious time for millions of Christians across America is almost upon us. Lent, the annual season to prepare for the celebration of Easter, begins on Feb. 18, or Ash Wednesday. The ...

Lent is a 40-day Christian season of spiritual preparation and reflection leading up to Easter. In 2026, Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, February 18, and ends on Maundy Thursday, April 2. Ash Wednesday ...

The brief Biblical account of Herod’s slaughter of innocents raises the question of what faith demands when politics fails to ...

Russia will continue to observe the limits set under the recently-expired New START nuclear arms reduction treaty if the United States does the same, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow will observe the limits of the last nuclear arms pact with the United States that expired last week as long as it sees that Washington is doing the same, Russia's top diplomat ...

Sixty-year-old Abraham Torres Fernandez spent the first eight months of ICE detention in total silence. Eighteen years ago, he fled his home country of Cuba, where he worked as a shopkeeper, to escape ...

When the contents of the bathtub first come into focus at the start of the premiere episode of “56 Days,” you’re not exactly sure what you’re seeing. It’s viscous, with a rainbow sheen not unlike an ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces killed more than 6,000 people in three days during an offensive in ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Russia pledges to observe the expired New START treaty’s nuclear limits if the United States maintains compliance, ...

If it is ‘certain that we shall not be here for long,’ as Blaise Pascal says, ‘and uncertain whether we shall be here even one hour,’ then what lies beyond death matters more than anything else.

The death of a nearly blind refugee in Buffalo, New York, days after Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a coffee shop alone, has prompted an investigation into the circumstances of his final days ...

CAIRO — More than 6,000 people were killed in over three days when a Sudanese paramilitary group unleashed "a wave of intense violence … shocking in its scale and brutality" in Sudan's Darfur region ...