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.

SEVASTOPL, February 26. /TASS/. A Christian relic, a piece of the True Cross on which the believers say Jesus Christ was crucified would be kept at the Moskva missile cruiser, the Black Sea fleet ...

Following the Muslim conquest in the region around 640AD, Christians were tattooed by the state with a cross on their inner right wrist Zahar is among scores of Christian pilgrims who flock to ...