Local faith leaders will be fasting in solidarity with those who rely on SNAP benefits, they announced Monday.

Traditionally, the season of Lent is a time of deep spiritual reflection that for most Christians includes fasting. Fasting is the act of intentionally refraining from something. Usually, this ...

The question will be: what do those Christians believe, or who is the Christian fasting to? In Islam, disbelief invalidates good deeds. “And whosoever disbelieves rejects faith, then fruitless is his ...

An American pastor stranded in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa is currently in the middle of a 15-day fast and is encouraging ...

Find today’s readings here. In today’s reading, a parable from the Gospel of Matthew, John’s disciples ask Jesus why his followers do not fast. Christ responds in his typical fashion by asking a ...

In many Catholic parishes, people are gathering for Friday night fish fries because they abstain from eating meat on Fridays during Lent. In Muslim homes, people are gathering every evening for iftar ...