As Lent wraps up, Holy Week continues through Easter Sunday. See the meaning of Good Friday and why people fast after Maundy ...

Lent is a 40-day season of prayer, fasting and giving, held 40 days before Easter Sunday ... set the first official period of Lent in 601 AD, according to the Museum of the Bible.

But some people opt to increase things such as prayer, reading scripture and serving others. Some Christians, mostly Catholics, also choose to abstain from certain foods during Lent. This is ...

The tradition dates as far back as 601 AD, when 64th leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Gregory cemented the Lent as ...