St Dominic, Tamar Valley: Our wooded enclave is alive again with bursting magnolia and questing bumblebees, while primroses amass on the lanes
Brilliant yellow daffodils and the pale foam of the first…
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The Christian-Muslim couple who are fasting for Lent and Ramadan at the same time ⊕
Ramadan and Lent haven't overlapped since 1993 and couples like Olanrewaju and Kaosara in Nigeria are observing them together.
42 days ago
Attack of the badger-men: can women find a place in the violent and wine-soaked carnivals of southern France? ○
At the start of Lent, men dressed as rampaging creatures pursue women through medieval villages. The families who maintain these traditions are sceptical of change, but increasingly female revellers …
55 days ago
Olympic fans experience Italy's colourful Carnival in Cortina ○
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Carnival closed in Cortina d'Ampezzo with street performances by Silence Teatro, marking Shrove Tuesday before the start of Lent
59 days ago
Rio revelry begins! Scantily-clad glitter-covered partygoers parade through streets of Brazilian cities for annual festival ⊕⊕
The annual five-day festival (pictured), which began on Friday and will last until Tuesday, marks a last gasp of excess for the Catholic country before Lent starts on Ash Wednesday.
61 days ago
My love letter to Brittany’s best exports ⊕⊕⊕
Along with its crisp, earthy galettes – suitable for Pancake Day and, really, any time of the year – this French region has so many delicious things to eat
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12 months ago
Prankster asks woman to stop eating lunch on the bus because he's fasting for Lent - and sparks furious debate about who's in the right ○
In a clip, originally posted on TikTok last year but is still doing the rounds on X today, a man staged a debate on the matter by asking a woman sitting nearby on a UK bus to stop eating her lunch.
Listeners slate BBC over decision to have the Archers' Lynda Snell fast for Ramadan in the run up to Lent ○
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Radio 4's The Archers has been branded ' woke ' and 'offensive' for broadcasting a storyline about Ramadan in the run up to the Christian festival of Lent.
13 months ago
Pope Francis is 'stable and eating solid foods' but his health situation remains 'complex', the Vatican says ○
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
The 88-year-old Pope is still in Gemelli Hospital receiving treatment for double pneumonia, but he followed along via video call to the Vatican's service marking the first Sunday of Lent.
Cardinal reads pope’s Ash Wednesday homily meditating on ‘tragedy of death’ ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Pontiff, 88, remains stable and received communion in hospital as Catholics marked beginning of Lent
Pope Francis remained in a stable condition on his 20th day in hospital with pneumonia, sitting in …