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Hence, Orthodox Christmas and Easter come after the Catholic/Protestant Christmas and Easter. Yet, because Easter is variable, some years the two dates do coincide. The approach of Nicaea had held ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — Almost two weeks ago, many celebrated Christmas but Monday night, members of the Saints Peter and Paul Church in Youngstown celebrated the Ukrainian Orthodox Christmas ...

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Orthodox faithful who live in the U.S. are ... He added, “For both Easter and Christmas, I would celebrate with the expatriate community following the Western calendar and then travel down ...

the Orthodox countries did not accept the changes to the calendar made by Pope Gregory. And so, the two churches often celebrate major feasts such as Christmas and Easter on different days ...

Vladimir Putin met the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, on Tuesday with gifts he asked the Patriarch to bless for troops fighting in Ukraine. The meeting at a Christmas ...

Putin had also declared a 36-hour ceasefire in January 2023, in honor of Orthodox Christmas, but fighting continued.

Ukraine has previously been skeptical about such temporary pauses in conflict, having rejected a temporary ceasefire to coincide with the Orthodox Christmas holiday in January 2023, believing that ...

Previous attempts at holding ceasefires for Easter in April 2022 and Orthodox Christmas in January 2023 were not implemented after both sides failed to agree on them.

In January 2023, Putin had ordered his forces in Ukraine to observe a unilateral, 36-hour cease-fire for Orthodox Christmas. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had stopped short of stating ...

Attempts to implement ceasefires for Easter in April 2022 and Orthodox Christmas in January 2023 failed after Russia and Ukraine were unable to reach an agreement.