Is today Fat Tuesday? What is the meaning and why do we celebrate? Here's what we know from king cakes to Holy Week schedule.

Celebrated as Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, around the world, Shrove Tuesday, or "Pancake Day," derives from the English word meaning to seek forgiveness or be granted absolution.

Shrove Tuesday, also known as Pancake Day is the traditional feast day before the Lent fast starts on Ash Wednesday. Today, ...

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

Pancake Day 2025 falls on March 4, marking the celebration of Shrove Tuesday.Discover the origins of Shrove Tuesday.

Fat Tuesday and Ash Wednesday take place this week, marking the start of Lent. Here are the dates for Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

If you weren’t aware, today isn’t formally known as Pancake Day. I know, I know, it’s a day all about pancakes. However, it’s ...

Severn Trent are reminding customers to have a flipping good time this Shrove Tuesday, but to ‘be a binner, not a blocker’ by ...

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

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

Pancake Day, also known as Shrove Tuesday, is celebrated on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. It's a day of feasting and ...

Growing up, I loved my mother's traditional Guyanese pancakes but often was unsure why they were even called pancakes, as ...