Russia's invasion, which began in February 2022, has also been a source of religious controversy within the Eastern Orthodox Church and has driven a split among believers in both Russia and Ukraine.Vi ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — Almost two weeks ago, many celebrated Christmas but Monday night, members of the Saints Peter and Paul Church in Youngstown celebrated the Ukrainian Orthodox Christmas ...

Locals celebrate Ukrainian Orthodox Christmas Eve at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Youngstown, Ohio ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has argued that his country's dictatorship is preferable to Ukraine's democracy. Speaking at an Orthodo ...

The patriarch of Russia's Orthodox Church, celebrating Christmas alongside Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, said on Tuesday that the Western world despised Russia and its "alternative path of civilised ...

Vladimir Putin met the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, on Tuesday with gifts he asked the Patriarch to bless for troops fighting in Ukraine. The meeting at a Christmas ...

Russia halted gas deliveries to the pro-Russia separatist region of Transnistria in Moldova on January 1. The people there ...

Vladimir Putin has marked Russian Orthodox Christmas by attending church in Moscow alongside fighters in his war against ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin attended Christmas mass in Moscow on Monday evening, starting his visit at the Church of ...

In 2023, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy officially changed the Christmas holiday to Dec. 25 from the date observed by the Russian Orthodox Church in the Julian calendar, distancing the ...

Instead of cementing the final preparations for celebrating Orthodox Christmas with family and ... structure was built in 1938 and used as a Ukrainian Labour Hall. Sarlakis said the church ...

January 7 marks an alternate Christmas tradition, namely the Orthodox Christmas, and a very strong one at that ...