In Ukraine, the date on which to celebrate Christmas is vigorously debated. Some prefer December 25, but others celebrate it on January 7, a tradition closely associated with Russia and the ...

The Orthodox Church of Ukraine actually broke away from the Moscow church in 2018, but it continued to hold Christmas services on January 6 and 7. This July, President Zelenskyy moved the legal ...

In response, Ukraine fought back physically and spiritually, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signing a law in July changing the official Christmas holiday from Jan. 7 to Dec. 25 to ...

Metropolitan Epiphanius, center right, and priests deliver an Orthodox Christmas service inside the nearly 1,000-year-old Pechersk Lavra Cathedral of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023.

Ukraine's main Orthodox Church has rejected the authority of the Moscow patriarch, and many Ukrainian believers have shifted their calendar to celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25 as in the West.

DNIPROPETROVSK REGION, Ukraine — Christmas on Ukraine’s front line started, fittingly, in an old barn filled with hay. Soldiers filed in as Lt. Mykola Bagirov, the brigade’s chaplain, began ...

A Christmas ceasefire in the Ukraine war has been proposed by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.. The nationalist leader also suggested another prisoner of war swap with Ukraine to Russian ...

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 | WWNO ...