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In Ukraine, Christmas celebrations traditionally start on Christmas Eve, which is celebrated from December 24 to January 6, the date of the celebration of the baptism of Jesus, known in Ukraine as Vodokhreshche or Yordan, according to the Gregorian calendar and Revised Julian calendar by the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), the Catholic Church in Ukraine (including the Latin and Greek ...
Traditional Russian Christmas festivities start on Christmas Eve, which is celebrated on 6 January [ O.S. 24 December]. Christmas was largely erased from the Russian calendar for much of the 20th century due to the Soviet Union's anti-religious policies, but many of its traditions survived, having been transplanted to New Year's Day. [4]
In the East Syriac rite, the season of Epiphany (Epiphanytide) is known as Denha . In the Armenian Apostolic Church, January 6 is celebrated as the Nativity ( Soorp Tsnund) and Theophany of Christ. The feast is preceded by a seven-day fast. On the eve of the feast, the Divine Liturgy is celebrated.
Ukraine, like Russia, officially observed Orthodox Christmas on Jan. 7 according to the Julian calendar until Kyiv passed a law earlier this year shifting the date to Dec. 25 in line with other ...
Ukraine rejected the cease-fire ordered unilaterally by Russian President Vladimir Putin, which began Friday to coincide with the start of Orthodox Christmas.
The Eve of Nativity (December 24) is a strict fast day, called Paramony ( lit. 'preparation' ), on which no solid food should be eaten until Sirius is seen in the evening sky (or at the very least, until after the Vesperal Divine Liturgy that day). If Paramony falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the day is not observed as a strict fast, but a meal ...
Peter & Paul Orthodox Christian Church, 141 Hoffman Farm Road, Windber, said the Christmas Eve service will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday and Divine Liturgy will be celebrated at 9 a.m. Friday ...
Christmas. Ethiopian Christmas ( Amharic: ገና [a]; Oromo: Ayaana; Tigrinya: ልደት [b]) is a holiday celebrated by the Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox churches, as well as Protestant and Catholic denominations in Ethiopia, on 7 January (Tahsas 29 in the Ethiopian calendar ). One of the district features of Ethiopian Christmas is ...