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Orthodox Christmas: Why it's celebrated by some believers 13 days after Dec. 25
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 5 months agoWhile much of the world has Christmas in the rearview mirror by now, people in some Eastern Orthodox...
Orthodox Church of Ukraine Holds First Christmas in Historic Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
The New Voice of Ukraine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) celebrated Orthodox Christmas services in the Holy Dormition...
Orthodox mark Christmas, but the celebration is overshadowed for many by conflict
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 5 months agoOrthodox Christians packed churches Saturday night for Christmas Eve services, a holiday...
Greece just legalized same-sex marriage. Will other Orthodox countries join them any time soon?
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 4 months agoGreece has become the first majority-Orthodox Christian nation to legalize same-sex marriage under...
Zelensky: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to attend Switzerland peace summit
Kyiv Independent via Yahoo News· 1 month agoEcumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the archbishop of Constantinople and the most senior hierarch of...
Orthodox Church of Ukraine finally adopts new calendar
The New Voice of Ukraine via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) has approved a transition to the Revised Julian calendar,...
Claiming Christmas is Ukrainians’ latest salvo at Russia
NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMAKARIV, Ukraine — Russia took nearly everything from Tetyana Kuvtun. So she’s retaliated in the...
Hidden tunnel and rooms unearthed under 1,500-year-old church in Istanbul
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoArchaeologists have excavated subterranean rooms and a tunnel under an early church in Istanbul,...
Ecumenical Patriarch's representative arrives in Kyiv, affirms support for Ukraine
Kyiv Independent via Yahoo News· 10 months agoMetropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, a personal representative of Ecumenical Patriarch and Archbishop...
Scrutiny of Ukraine church draws praise, fear of overreach
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAfter its searches of holy sites belonging to Ukraine’s historic Orthodox church, the nation’s...