BUTTE, Mont. — Most Christians observe Christmas on December 25th. But most Eastern Orthodox celebrate Christ's birth on January 7th. For parishioners at the Serbian Orthodox Church in Butte it ...

In Belgrade, Serbian believers marked the Orthodox Christmas Eve by burning oak branches at sermons held outside churches and ...

Tribune-Review Friday, Jan. 11, 2019 9:13 a.m. | Friday, Jan. 11, 2019 9:13 a.m. Worshipers gathered at St. Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church in Monroeville to ...

On January 7, Christmas is celebrated by the Russian, Georgian, Jerusalemite, Polish and Serbian Orthodox churches, the Athos monasteries in Greece, as well as the Eastern Catholic Church and the ...

Moreover, Orthodox Christians place much significance on Christmas songs or canons ... the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Ukraine still use the Julian Calendar. Armenians have claimed an ...

Australia’s Serbian community has dedicated its Orthodox Christmas of January 6 and 7 to helping victims of the bushfires still burning across the country. When parents and friends at Western ...

Children break traditional Christmas bread to mark the Orthodox Christmas Day festivities in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, 240 kms northwest of Sarajevo, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025.

The sacred performance signals a deepening of Catholic-Orthodox dialogue and a potential step toward a papal visit to Serbia.

On this day, Christmas is celebrated by the Russian, Georgian, Jerusalemite, Polish and Serbian Orthodox churches, the Athos monasteries in Greece, as well as the Eastern Catholic Church and the ...

Nik Lukich is a trustee at the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in Sydney and has been celebrating Christmas alongside the hundreds of millions of Orthodox Christians worldwide. The Orthodox ...