This week kicks off the period leading up to the Christian Easter celebrations. But while Easter is typically associated with ...

Police in Mannheim, Germany asked people to avoid the downtown area after a vehicle plowed into a crowd near a Carnival ...

Germany's largest Carnival parade on Shrove Monday, known in Germany as Rose Monday, kicked off in the western German city of ...

One float in the Düsseldorf Shrove Monday parade showed the US president making a ‘Hitler-Stalin-Pact 2.0’ with Putin while ...

Folks at Easton Baking Co. in Easton work all day and into the night preparing for the annual Fastnaucht Day celebration.

The day earned its name from the Christian tradition of seeking absolution before the start of Lent. Pancakes became ...

Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras. The celebrity couple previously dated for four months in 2023 before calling it quits in October of that year. 'Tom and Irina have started dating ...

Rosenmontag, as its known in German speaking countries, is more often called Shrove Monday in English, and takes place ahead of Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent in the Christian tradition.

At least two people were killed and several others were seriously injured when a German man drove a vehicle into a crowd of ...

A series of handmade signs were posted along Route 183 on Monday, cueing motorists with an enticing message: “Homemade fasnachts ahead.” As the signs suggested, there were, indeed, fasnachts aplenty ...

Lent is a period of 40 days which many Christians observe as a time of fasting, abstinence and penitence - here is everything ...

For those who observe Lent, Shrove Tuesday is the time to indulge ... Chapel while at 23 Meadowbrook Center in Wayne Twp., Monday, March 3, 2025. (MATTHEW PERSCHALL/MULTIMEDIA EDITOR) “I ...