BOARDMAN, Ohio (WKBN) – Christmas Eve traditions come in a lot of forms, like Midnight Mass or setting out cookies for Santa. But for many Italian families, it’s a day, or night, for fish. The ...

Many Ukrainian Orthodox Christians in Manitoba, including the Kowalchuk family, celebrated Christmas Eve — and its traditional 12-dish vegetarian meal — on Saturday for the last time in January.

The traditional Ukrainian Catholic Holy Supper calls for 12 meatless dishes, most of which carry symbolic meaning. The centerpiece is koloch, or Ukrainian Christmas bread .

With Ukrainian Christmas food traditions, good things come in small packages. Many of us put a lot of effort into the packages now piling up under the tree. But people of Ukrainian heritage, like ...

For their svyata vecherya-- the traditional meal consisting of 12 meatless dishes on Christmas Eve, the night before the end of the seasonal fast -- they will make sure to have both uzvar-- a ...

I don’t want there to be any confusion, it’s not a Ukrainian Christmas,” Fr. Zomchak said. About 75 people gathered inside the church, filled with prayer, singing and performing traditional ...

The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine has impacted every aspect of life for Ukrainians, even the date they celebrate Christmas. What hasn’t changed is the tradition of serving 12 dishes on ...

3 A traditional Christmas Eve dinner is prepared by Ukrainian service members on December 24. The change brings Ukraine's Orthodox believers in line with the country's Catholics, who earlier this ...

Ukrainian Christmas traditions include a dinner on Christmas Eve with 12 meatless dishes, including a sweet grain pudding called kutya, and people decorate homes with elaborate sheaves of wheat ...

Ukrainian people start the meal with Kutya on Christmas Eve. It is made from threshed wheat, which is pounded in a makitra (a big clay mixing bowl). Honey, jam and dried fruit are added.

Carolers, dressed in traditional Hutsul clothes, celebrate Christmas in Kryvorivnya village, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine on Dec. 25, 2024. (Vitalii Poberezhnyi / The Kyiv Independent) ...