For much of the Western world, Christmas is celebrated on December 25, according to the Gregorian calendar. Yet in a distinction that dates back centuries, Orthodox Christians follow the Julian ...

Orthodox Christians packed churches Saturday night for Christmas Eve services, a holiday overshadowed for many believers by conflict. Traditions vary, but typically the main worship service for ...

Orthodox Christians packed churches on Saturday night for Christmas Eve services, a holiday overshadowed for many believers by conflict.

Packing a cathedral for Orthodox Christmas, hundreds of worshippers heard the service in that church in the Ukrainian language for the first time in decades, a demonstration of independence from ...

Victoria, a Ukrainian refugee, is celebrating Orthodox Christmas in Poland with a simple prayer — that next year she will be back at home.

By Sophie Tanno, CNN For much of the Western world, Christmas is celebrated on December 25, according to the Gregorian calendar. Yet in a distinction that dates back centuries, Orthodox Christians ...

While much of the world has Christmas in the rearview mirror by now, people in some Eastern Orthodox traditions will celebrate the holy day on Sunday. Certain Eastern Orthodox churches, including ...

Orthodox mark Christmas, but the celebration is overshadowed for many by conflict Orthodox Christians packed churches on Saturday night for Christmas Eve services, a holiday overshadowed for many ...

Many Ukrainian Orthodox Christians in Manitoba, including the Kowalchuk family, celebrated Christmas Eve — and its traditional 12-dish vegetarian meal — on Saturday for the last time in January.

Orthodox Christmas -- and the long-standing rift between the Russian Orthodox Church and other Orthodox groups -- has been thrust into the spotlight this year by Russian President Vladmir Putin's ...