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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Christmas in Serbia is aligned to the Julian calendar ... The build up to Christmas begins on 28 November with advent, when Orthodox Christians enter into a 40-day fast that excludes meat, dairy ...

11, 2019 9:13 a.m. Worshipers gathered at St. Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church in Monroeville to celebrate Orthodox Christmas Eve Jan. 6. According to the Julian Calendar, it is a Serbian ...

Nicholas on Orthodox Christmas. St. Nicholas was a historic ... the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Ukraine still use the Julian Calendar. Armenians have claimed an enduring presence in ...

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 ...