Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7, following the Julian calendar. This highlights historical resistance to ...

Ethiopian pilgrims pray during a Mass service for Ethiopian Christmas at the Bole Medhane Alem cathedral in Addis Ababa, ...

More than 200 million Christians are associated with Orthodox Churches and most celebrate Christmas on 7 January.

Christians around the world celebrate Christmas on December 25, but Tuesday marked the birth of Christ for many others. For ...

Christos razdajetsja! “Christ is born.” Today is Christmas for those of the Orthodox faith. Throughout the area, ...

The patriarch of Russia's Orthodox Church, celebrating Christmas alongside Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, said on Tuesday ...

Russia halted gas deliveries to the pro-Russia separatist region of Transnistria in Moldova on January 1. The people there ...

The Very Rev. Protopresbyter Robert Buczak, Christ the Saviour Cathedral pastor, holds the chalice during a procession at the ...

Tourists joined Ethiopians for Orthodox Christmas celebrations at one of the world's oldest churches on Tuesday.

Thousands of Georgians marched through the streets of Tbilisi late on Monday on Orthodox Christmas Eve, gathering in front of ...

An NBC News crew in Gaza filmed Amal Naser Al-Amoudi and her husband, Tony Al-Masri, as they prepped for Orthodox Christmas in a makeshift refugee camp that is now their home in Khan Younis. The ...

While many have taken down their Christmas trees and put away their decorations until next year, Christians in Eastern ...