While Christmas is widely celebrated on Dec 25, Orthodox Christians observe it on Jan 7, following the Julian calendar, which is 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar used by most of the world.

Few may be aware that an Orthodox Christian church exists in the heart of the city, tucked away amid towering skyscrapers. Housed in an unassuming white bungalow, the Archangel Michael Russian ...

This year, Russian President Putin attended an overnight Orthodox Christmas service at the Church of the Great Martyr George the Victorious in the Moscow Region ...

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Christmas is a great Orthodox holiday that symbolizes the birth of the savior and spiritual renewal for believers. In order ...

Archpriest Heorhii Horbenko, the rector of the Church of the Intercession in the village of Orlove in Kherson Oblast, has ...

On Christmas Day, the divine service in Orthodox churches takes several hours and includes several stages: Vespers, Matins ...

President Vladimir Putin attended an early Wednesday Russian Orthodox Christmas service and hailed his troops' “holy mission” ...

Millions of people worldwide celebrated Orthodox Christmas nearly two weeks after much of the world marked the holiday.

Miraculously, one of the drones missed the building where 20 pastors were sleeping by mere feet and detonated in the parking ...

A trio of House Republicans welcomed an Orthodox Christian delegation that accused Ukraine of religious persecution to Capitol Hill this week. Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) and ...

Although Rosstat has decided to keep the data secret until 2025, many independent demographers believe that the decline in ...