Merry Christmas to the Orthodox Christians in the valley. To celebrate, a Divine Liturgy was held this morning at Saints ...

The Christmas season isn’t over, at least not for the handful of orthodox Christian churches that follow the Julian Calendar ...

BLOOMINGDALE, Ill. (CBS)-- There were prayers for peace across Chicago's Ukrainian community Thursday night, from services in Palatine and Bloomingdale to gatherings in Ukrainian Village. As CBS 2's ...

The rituals leading up to Easter are the same. The solemn Good Friday processions. The Holy Saturday blessings of foods that were avoided during Lent. The liturgies accompanied by processions, bells ...

Ukraine’s parliament moved forward on Tuesday with long-standing plans to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). A lopsided 265 votes to 29 were cast in favor of a bill that will shut down religious ...

Orthodox Christmas explained: why millions celebrate on January 7, calendar differences, traditions, fasting, and global ...

A second vote on the bill is necessary before being presented to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for final approval as a law. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) is part of the greater Eastern Orthodox ...

LVIV, Ukraine (RNS) — On a recent Sunday, Ukrainian Orthodox Abbott Job Olshansky faced 50 stoic parishioners and presented his case for why the community should switch to the Gregorian liturgical ...

A council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) on Friday resolved on its “full self-sufficiency and independence,” distancing the Church from Russian Orthodoxy. The decision comes ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Kyiv court ordered a leading priest to be put under house arrest Saturday after Ukraine's top security agency said he was suspected of justifying Russian aggression, a criminal ...

Ukraine’s security service is investigating whether a Kyiv monastery linked to the Moscow Patriarchate has been running an ...

Designer Svitlana Bevza of the label Bevza celebrates Christmas in a far different way than most people do in the West. Instead of celebrating on December 24 and 25, she rings in the holiday on ...