Many Christian students and faculty at the University of Connecticut partook in the religion’s annual Ash Wednesday practice yesterday by going to church to get ash crosses on their foreheads.Several ...

Flint Powers Catholic sophomore Aliyah Rose, 15 at center, prays with her classmates after receiving the ash cross on her forehead alongside more than 550 students during an Ash Wednesday service ...

A Utah elementary school teacher apologized to one of her Catholic students Wednesday -- and may still face disciplinary action -- after she forced him to wash off the Ash Wednesday cross on his ...

For its busy college students, Spartanburg Methodist College offered “Ashes to Go” for Ash Wednesday. SMC Chaplain Tim Drum and Old Testament professor Melinda McDonald set up a table for the ...

A Utah teacher who forced her student to wash off the Ash Wednesday cross last week said she thought it was “dirt on his forehead” and claimed she didn’t know it was a religious symbol.

A student group at a public university in Kansas on Ash Wednesday sponsored a distribution of ashes mixed with glitter as “an inherently queer sign of Christian belief,” an annual event that ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- A Utah teacher is apologizing after she didn't allow one of her students to wear a religious symbol at school. KSTU-TV reports, like millions of Catholics and Christians ...

Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day fall on the same day this year. Here’s what you need to know ... eager elementary school students — and critics who deride its commercialization.

A St. Joseph High School student receives ashes from the Rev. Andrew Fischer on Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, at Most Blessed Sacrament Church in Natrona Heights, Harrison on Wednesday ...

A Utah school district has placed a teacher on administrative leave for forcing a 9-year-old student to remove the cross of ashes from his forehead on Ash Wednesday.

Between 550 and 575 students came together at Powers Catholic High School in Flint this week for the school’s Ash Wednesday service.

A Utah school district has placed a teacher on administrative leave for forcing a 9-year-old student to remove the cross of ashes from his forehead on Ash Wednesday.