The most palpable impact will be that millions of Ukrainians will celebrate Christmas with the ... from Old Church Slavonic to modern Ukrainian, changing calendars, Yevstratiy believes, is the ...

And this is a historic moment because this is the first year that the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is celebrating Christmas on the Western calendar and not with the Russian Orthodox Church ...

Ukraine will formally mark Christmas Day on December 25 this year ... that Ukraine observes the date in line with the Gregorian calendar, along with most of the world’s Christians.

In Ukraine, the date on which to celebrate ... the Orthodox Church decided to stick with the old calendar when it came to the celebration of Christmas. DANYLEVICH: (Through interpreter) We ...

No matter what the calendar says, though ... Like in other Slavic cultures, the roots of Christmas celebrations in Ukraine reach back before Christianity itself. In 988, Prince Volodymyr the ...

The Russian Orthodox Church, which claims sovereignty over Orthodoxy in Ukraine, and some other Eastern Orthodox churches, continues to use the ancient Julian calendar. Christmas falls 13 days ...

Ukraine’s main Greek Catholic church said in February it was moving to a new calendar to celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25 as well.The decision appears to be popular. In December, the Ukrainian ...

For much of the Western world, Christmas is celebrated ... to adhere to the Julian calendar. In recent years, a large part of the Orthodox community in Ukraine has sought to distance itself ...

Ukraine has shifted Christmas from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, further distancing itself from Russian tradition. Ukraine is celebrating Christmas on the Western calendar this year ...