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 ...

In Ukraine, the date on which to celebrate ... we always had this really vivid Christmas celebration. MAK: Sixty-year-old Oleksandra Kyrychuk is the assistant director of the Museum of Religion ...

For 6-year-old Darynka, that meant practicing ... is an opportunity for us to gather for this beautiful Ukrainian religious tradition.” Christmas, like so much else in Ukraine these days ...

The 88-year-old pontiff’s remarks came hours ... is that they respect the “territorial integrity of Ukraine.” Elsewhere in his Christmas message, the pope called for peace across the Middle ...