The “Back-to-School” ceasefire begins. Within minutes, Russia fired small arms and large-caliber machine guns at Ukrainian ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Most Ukrainians are Orthodox Christians and the independent ... CEO Maxim Timchenko said in a statement. "Russia's Christmas gift to Ukraine: more than 70 missiles and 100 drones, directed at ...

Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate Christmas on 7 January. The Orthodox Church of Ukraine broke away from the Russian Orthodox church, and since 2023 now celebrates Christmas on December 25th.

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 ...