KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine has passed legislation moving its official Christmas holiday to December 25, further distancing itself from the traditions of the Putin-aligned Russian Orthodox Church, which ...

Believers to ring in Ukrainian Christmas in church basement after fire. Caption: Members of a Ukrainian church in Winnipeg will obser ...

The patriarch of Russian Orthodox Church is a vocal backer of Moscow’s war against Ukraine. Systema, RFE/RL’s Russian ...

For the last three years, Russia and Ukraine have separately proposed a short truce over Christmas—but each attempt has unraveled, leading to further fighting on the holiday. Earlier this month, the ...

But the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest communion in Eastern Orthodoxy, has stayed on the old calendar, observing Christmas on Jan. 7 on the new calendar, as have Serbian, Georgian and some other ...