Tag: LENT

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Apple and Fox's News Corp. are reportedly engaged in "advanced talks" about implementing a $0.99 iTunes TV show rental program, with CBS and Disney purportedly interested, as well. [From: Engadget] After a year of development, Yahoo! and Microsoft have finally completed Yahoo!'s Bing-powered Web, video and image "mega search." ...

The religions of the world have had no choice but to enthusiastically embrace technology. The Dalai Lama is now on Twitter, the same social network that hosted the Passion story for a NYC church, Jews can Tweet prayers to the Western Wall, and there is even a Web service that will do your praying for you. So when Bishop Robert Evens, or Bishop Bob as he's known, was in well-tread territory when he ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Last year, a Roman Catholic bishop urged believers to give up text messaging for Lent, and, this Ash Wednesday, other religious leaders are expanding on that suggestion. Instead of encouraging church members to avoid chocolate or other trivialities, a group of English bishops has asked that Anglicans engage in a complete ...

Christians and Catholics traditionally observe Lent, the approximately 40-day period between Ash Wednesday and Easter, by praying frequently and fasting from certain types of food. Abstaining from food -- and vices such as drinking and smoking -- is intended to help the believer prepare for the Easter celebration of Christ's resurrection, and to also create empathy for Jesus's time spent ...

Alright Christians and Catholics, you know what time it is. It's Lent time! Next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lenten season, which, for the uninitiated out there, is a period of fasting and sacrifice meant to remind the faithful of the 40 days and nights Jesus spent wandering in the desert. Usually, practitioners choose one vice or habit to give up for the 40 days, such as ...