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 ...

Christmas, like so much else in Ukraine these days, is tightly tangled up in the country’s war with Russia. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has taken the position that the Julian calendar used in ...

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 ...

Inspired by the Christmas Truce of 1914, more than 1,000 faith leaders are urging the United States to use diplomatic channels to seek a cessation of violence in Ukraine.

Christmas in Ukraine diary: Most moving experience I saw during my trip. Story by Daniel M. Darling • 1w. I ’m writing this in the air, flying back to Fort Worth from Europe.

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.

LEILA FADEL, HOST: 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 ...

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 ...