DY: Is there anything that these Russian Orthodox members see as essentially rural ... And your readers in Appalachia will remember that Old Christmas has been a tradition in Appalachia for a long ...

In Scranton, Saints Peter and Paul, the Russian Orthodox Church in ... While the dates may be different, most of the traditions of Orthodox Christmas are the same. “Many people today exchange ...

Vladimir Putin and the patriarch of Russia’s Orthodox ... which celebrates Christmas on January 7 in line with the Julian calendar, has been a vocal supporter of the Russian president’s ...

COMMENTARY: The Council of Nicaea gave Christianity more than a creed — it gave the Church a way to calculate Easter. But ...

Easter is one of the most important festivals for Christians around the world, and in 2025, it will be celebrated on Sunday, ...

“These wonderful holidays loved by everyone are intertwined with good family traditions ... of Syria Bashar Assad and Russian ...

For example, Russian cosmonauts who follow Orthodox Christianity celebrate Christmas on January 7th instead of December ... from the 25th of December to the 2nd of January. One important tradition ...

When they do so, their celebration will draw on a tradition stretching back ... which has caused a major rift within the Orthodox communion itself. The Russian Orthodox Patriarch in Moscow ...

Russian ballistic missiles ripped through the busy center of Ukraine’s northeastern city of Sumy on Sunday, officials said, killing at least 35 people and striking ...

Six months after the invasion of Ukraine, the Putin regime announced a document titled “State Policy for the Preservation and ...

Katherine Kelaidis is a research associate at the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in the United Kingdom and the author of Holy Russia? Holy War?: Why the Russian Church Is Backing Putin ...

When addressing Congress for the first time as US president on March 4, Donald Trump said, “Europe has sadly spent more money buying Russian oil and gas than they have spent on defending Ukraine.” ...