Wondering why a small dusty cross anoints the foreheads of Christians once a year? They're celebrating Ash Wednesday, which for many also marks the start of Lent, a 40-day period of penance and ...

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

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

Ash Wednesday is a holy day of reflection and repentance in the Christian faith. Believers observe the day by fasting and receiving ashes in the shape of a cross on their forehead. Ash Wednesday ...

Ash Wednesday is a significant part of the liturgical calendar of Christianity and is associated with putting a cross of ashes on one's forehead. But what do the crosses mean?

A fourth grader in Utah says his teacher forced him to wipe off the ash cross from his forehead to commemorate Ash Wednesday, saying he wasn't allowed to wear a religious symbol to class.

(CBS/AP) More than 20,000 Catholics marked the beginning of Lent, known as Ash Wednesday, by making an attempt at a world record - forming the world's largest human cross. The cross stretched ...

An elementary school teacher in Utah has been placed on leave after telling a student to wash off the cross on his forehead on Ash Wednesday. Moana Patterson, a 4th-grade teacher in Bountiful, a ...

A teacher in the predominantly Mormon state of Utah was placed on administrative leave after she forced a Catholic student to wash off the Ash Wednesday cross from his forehead.William McLeod, 9 ...

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 ...

A fourth grade teacher apologized and sent candy to her student after forcing him to wash off the ash cross on his forehead.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah teacher is on administrative leave after she made a 9-year-old Catholic student wash off the Ash Wednesday cross from his forehead. Davis School District spokesman ...