Area residents celebrated Russian Orthodox Christmas on Tuesday. A majority of Russian Orthodox churches worldwide use the ...

Ethiopian pilgrims pray during a Mass service for Ethiopian Christmas at the Bole Medhane Alem cathedral in Addis Ababa, ...

Vladimir Putin and the patriarch of Russia’s Orthodox Church sent a rather unfriendly message to the West during their ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the Orthodox Christmas service on Monday at Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral.

Russian President Vladimir Putin joined the congregation for an Orthodox Christmas service in Moscow on Monday evening.

This is the shocking moment a Russian ... ahead of Orthodox Christmas Day on Tuesday January 7. The fake Santa came into Beryozka household electrical goods store and posed for pictures with ...

Patriarch Kirill, an enthusiastic backer of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, blessed icons and crosses that were to be engraved ...

Russia's invasion, which began in February 2022, has also been a source of religious controversy within the Eastern Orthodox ...

the Russian Orthodox Church has dominated the religious lives of Ukrainians. However, in 2023, for the first time in over a century, Ukraine did not celebrate Christmas on January 7. In July 2023 ...

While much of the world marks Christmas on December 25, some countries celebrate on different dates—or not at all—due to unique cultural, religious, and historical reasons.