Moscow, Jan 7 (EFE).- Russia’s President Vladimir Putin attended the Orthodox Christmas mass Monday night in a Moscow church with veterans of the war in Ukraine. Putin, a self-confessed believer ...
After the Christmas Eve mass on January 6 ... The UOC has historically sided with the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow. On August 20, 2024, Ukraine adopted a law that banned religious ...
Ethiopian pilgrims pray during a Mass service for Ethiopian Christmas at the Bole Medhane Alem cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo) Christian Orthodox believers ... the ...
TASS has prepared this factbox with background information on the history of Russia’s traditional New Year’s celebration MOSCOW ... why Russian Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on ...
MOSCOW, January 1. /TASS/. Russia’s main New Year’s fir tree arrived at Moscow Kremlin’s Cathedral Square at midnight on December 12. The 90-year-old fir was felled near the settlement of ...
Moscow Patriarch Kirill accused the West of ... He made the comments during the celebration of the Christmas Mass on Jan. 7. Patriarch Kirill (born Vladimir Gundyayev) has been a close ally ...
For a long time, it was called the “Circumcision of the Lord” because, on the octave day of Christmas ... this icon for the Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation in Moscow.
Orthodox Christians in Russia marked the feast ... One believer, Alexander Solomatin, who came to Moscow from the Black Sea resort of Sochi, where it was too warm for the traditional ice hole ...
Conceding Ukrainian land to Russia comes with a host of geopolitical downsides, but a lesser-known consequence affects churches: Moscow targets non-Orthodox Christians. Across Russian-occupied ...