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Russian forces bombed steelworks in the devastated Ukrainian city of Mariupol where soldiers were holed up along with civilians, including children, as the besieged country marked Orthodox Easter ...
More than 100 Ukrainian prisoners of war have been released as part of a major Easter exchange with Russia, a top official said Sunday, as Orthodox Ukrainians marked the holiday for a second time ...
The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russian: Русская православная церковь, romanized: Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), also officially known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Московский патриархат, Moskovskiy patriarkhat), [12] is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church.
Other cases of incongruent data also might be due to counting ethnic groups from Eastern Orthodox countries rather than actual adherents. For example, the Eastern Orthodox jurisdictions in the United States, which has large numbers of immigrants from Eastern Orthodox countries, have collectively reported a total of 2–3 million across the country.
Orthodox Christians, including the Orthodox Church in Ukraine and Russia, celebrate Easter this weekend, while most Western churches observed the major holiday on March 31.
Russian Orthodox Christmas Service in St. Petersburg on 7 January 2019. Christmas in Russia (Рождество Христово, Rozhdestvo Khristovo) is celebrated on 25 December (Julian calendar) which falls on 7 January (Gregorian calendar) and commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ.
The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church.Passages of Holy Scripture, saints and events for commemoration are associated with each date, as are many times special rules for fasting or feasting that correspond to the day of the week or time of year in relationship to the major feast days.
Russia presents a challenge to powerful countries not because of its nuclear capabilities or strength, Kirill said, according to the news agencies. Russia's Orthodox patriarch, marking Christmas ...