Revellers hold flares as they take part in "flour wars" during "Ash Monday," a traditional festivity marking the end of the carnival season and the start of the 40-day Lent period until the ...

Ash Monday, the first day of the 50-day Lenten season, began for the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese of the Syro-Malabar Church on a note of dissent by the laity group Catholic Nazrani Sangham ...