Most Rev. Douglas Deshotel, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette, has released the following Lenten message: "Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season of Lent. A period of prayer, ...

The often thankless task of moving millions of people around New York City will become even more challenging for Muslim transit workers this month. Ramadan, Islam’s holy month of fasting, begins ...

hungry at home and abroad. "What we're doing is humbling ourselves before God and saying, `I can't do this anymore and I need your help and I'm not going to let go -- 10.4 million bed nets to fight ...

In the closing weeks of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, Catholics should pray and fast for "a culture of life," one Catholic member of Congress has said. "Like in the time of Queen Esther, the faithful and ...

Mary Margaret Olohan is a senior reporter for The Daily Signal and the author of "Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult." She previously reported for both The Daily Caller and The ...

EDITORIAL: Just as European Christians prayed the Rosary and fasted to be freed from the repressive Ottoman Empire, we need to employ the same strategy for peace in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Faith leaders around the world have called for fasting and prayer in response to the devastation and war in Israel. Jason Jones, founder of the Vulnerable People Project, called for a global day of ...

As some Christians continue to fast and pray in the new year, the Anglican Bishop of Oyo, Rt. Rev. Williams Aladekugbe, has urged them to pray fervently and eschew unforgiveness. Aladekugbe told the ...

Pope Francis called Monday for every member of the Catholic Church to pray and fast in penance for the evil of clerical sex abuse, and to be involved in needed change within the Church. "The only way ...

I was irritated when Pope Francis called for every member of the Church to “pray and fast in penance for the evil of clerical sex abuse, and to be involved in needed change within the Church” on Aug.

BUDAPEST (Reuters Life!) - What garlic and holy water did for vampires, fast and prayer may do to U.S. shock rocker Marilyn Manson in Hungary. At least that is the hope of some Catholic churchgoers in ...