By 1923, Orthodox Christmas was taking place 13 days after ... commemorating the Magi's visit to baby Jesus. Per Britannica, Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the holiday on Jan. 19 ...

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on ...

While most Christian communities around the world celebrate Christmas on December 25 or on the eve of December 24, those following the Eastern Orthodox traditions mark the day on January 6 or ...

On January 7, Christmas is celebrated by the Russian, Georgian, Jerusalemite, Polish and Serbian Orthodox churches, the Athos monasteries in Greece, as well as the Eastern Catholic Church and the ...

Berzins believes that Eastern Orthodox Christmas should finally be recognized as a public holiday RIGA, February 22 (Itar-Tass) — Eastern Orthodox Christmas should become an official public ...

spanning Eastern Europe, Egypt, and Ethiopia, and in Australia. Nik Lukich is a trustee at the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in Sydney and has been celebrating Christmas alongside the hundreds ...

Often the gifts are left under a Christmas tree in the home. Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate Christmas on 7 January. The Orthodox Church of Ukraine broke away from the Russian Orthodox church ...

That is why Christmas is celebrated on January 7 by the Orthodox Christians in Central and Eastern Europe and the Coptic Christians in Egypt. But there is one thing common between the Eastern and ...

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is the sole representative of the country’s traditional Eastern Orthodox Christianity and it alone may can use the term “Orthodox” in its name, Bulgaria’s ...