The Ukrainian Orthodox Church elects its primate and ... of newspapers and magazines featuring the words “Russian,” and Christmas or Easter sermons of the Russian Church patriarch.
prompting him to distribute crosses with his initials to soldiers before sending them to die on Ukrainian soil. On Orthodox Christmas, marked by Russian occupiers on Jan. 7, Russian Orthodox ...
The proposal, discussed at the XXXIII Christmas Readings ... country – many relocating to other Eastern Orthodox nations or Istanbul. In Ukraine, Orthodox Christianity, the country’s largest ...
An curved arrow pointing right. For the first time in over a century, Ukrainians celebrated Christmas on December 25. The move marks an ongoing shift for the country in an attempt to break away ...
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill has called for a Christmas ceasefire in Ukraine and Donbass ... 6 to 12:00 a.m. on January 7 so that Orthodox people could attend church services ...
BUDAPEST, December 20. /TASS/. Hungary still hopes that Russia and Ukraine may agree on a ceasefire and a large-scale exchange of prisoners by Orthodox Christmas, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor ...
An imprisoned Ukrainian Orthodox Church priest has been sent to a hard labor camp in Russia to serve a 14-year sentence on ...
We'll see when he becomes president.” St. Peter & St. Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church, in Carnegie, celebrates Christmas according to the Julian calendar, so it wasn’t until January that Father ...
The top figure in Eastern Orthodox Christianity on Sunday has said “Ukraine’s sovereignty is not up for debate, nor can it be negotiated under the guise of diplomacy,” as he celebrated Mass ...
The timing was significant — it was posted on the same day that the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas Eve, though the Ukrainian church switched in 2023 to celebrating Christmas on Dec ...
ISTANBUL (AP) — The top figure in Eastern Orthodox Christianity on Sunday declared that “Ukraine’s sovereignty is not up for debate, nor can it be negotiated under the guise of diplomacy ...