DNIPROPETROVSK REGION, Ukraine — Christmas on Ukraine’s front line started, fittingly, in an old barn filled with hay. Soldiers filed in as Lt. Mykola Bagirov, the brigade’s chaplain, began ...

Ukrainian soldiers marked their second Christmas on the frontline of the war against Russia. Wednesday (25 December) marked their second Christmas at war and away from home since the February 2022 ...

A few days before Christmas, my father and I set out to buy our Christmas tree, but that year our car wouldn’t start. It was a chilly, snow-covered night with flakes still falling, and my father ...

Pope Francis has called for a “negotiation” to end the war in Ukraine in a Christmas Day message where he appealed for weapons to be laid down in global conflicts and reconciliation between enemies.

Father Vasyl Diychuk conducts the Christmas Day service in the church in Sokolivka, a village in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine on Dec. 25, 2024. (Vitalii Poberezhnyi / The Kyiv Independent) ...

The Ukrainian government passed a law in 2023 changing the date of Christmas to Dec. 25, from Jan. 7, the traditional Orthodox date that Russians celebrate.

Pope Francis urged peace in Ukraine and Gaza, in his annual Urbi et Orbi address on Christmas Day, speaking from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, on December 25.

Pope Francis urged peace in Ukraine and Gaza in his annual Urbi et Orbi address on Christmas Day, speaking from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Thursday, Dec. 25.

Pope Francis urged peace in Ukraine and Gaza in his annual Urbi et Orbi address on Christmas Day, speaking from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Thursday, Dec. 25.