Mardi Gras in New Orleans, has been in full swing since Jan. 6 and will close with a final celebration on March 4 with a Fat Tuesday celebration.

The Louisiana city's final celebration takes place March 4 on Fat Tuesday. The day before the ... Mardi Gras is rooted in the traditions of various cultures before the solemn season of Lent.

Paczki Day does not fall on the same day every year because it is celebrated on Fat Tuesday, which moves in relation to ...

"It's deeper than abstaining from ice cream," said Fr. Bill Swichtenberg of St. Mary Catholic Community in Appleton.

King cake — a colorful brioche cake with a good luck plastic baby inside — is eaten around Fat Tuesday and Mardi Gras but can ...

According to Dynamic Catholic, "A Catholic Guide to Fat Tuesday," Mardi Gras is French ... A plastic baby is placed somewhere inside the cake. Tradition goes that the the person who gets the ...

This year, the Jewish holiday of Passover begins before sundown on Saturday, April 12, 2025, and ends after nightfall on Sunday, April 20. The eight-day Jewish holiday of Passover commemorates the ...

Every Carnival in Tenosique, Tabasco, wooden men, priestesses and jaguars ritually overcome an evil god in the dance of El Pochó.

Vice President JD Vance slammed the U.S. government's previous promotion of atheism on the world stage while addressing the ...

Galveston brings two weeks of parades, beads and live performances, featuring Bret Michaels and Kevin Fowler as headliners.