Ukrainian Orthodox Christians attended services on Sunday as the country for the first time celebrated Christmas on Dec. 25, after the government changed the date from Jan. 7, when most Orthodox ...

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 ...

Ukraine has passed legislation moving its official Christmas holiday to December 25, further distancing itself from the traditions of the Putin-aligned Russian Orthodox Church, which celebrates ...

Russia hits Ukraine with Christmas Day attack on energy system 00:47. Kyiv, Ukraine — Russia launched a massive missile and drone barrage targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure on Wednesday ...

Ukraine will formally mark Christmas Day on December 25 this year, in a symbolic shift away from Russia, which celebrates the holiday on January 7.

Christmas, like so much else in Ukraine these days, is tightly tangled up in the country’s war with Russia. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has taken the position that the Julian calendar used in ...

The change, inside legislation signed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in July, reflects Ukrainians' dismay with the 22-month-old Russian conflict.

On Christmas, Ukraine's Orthodox Christians try to find solace NPR's Tim Mak is in Ukraine as people there celebrate their first Christmas since the invasion.

"Heart is broken because we have family still in Ukraine, my brother in Ukraine," said Helena Pupin, a parishioner. For hundreds of others worshiping, the Christmas service was not just a time of ...

"Ukraine was brutally attacked on Christmas Day," said Keith Kellogg, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Ukraine and Russia envoy.

The war in Ukraine has triggered the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. As a result, millions of children from Ukraine will be spending this Christmas far from home, familiarity, and ...

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 ...