As Christmas approaches, Mariia finds herself reflecting on the Ukrainian traditions that will never leave her. Christmas is her favourite element of winter, and she describes it as a completely ...

Russia's war and occupation of large swaths of Ukraine have led to hundreds of churches being damaged or destroyed, dozens of priests killed or kidnapped, and entire religious groups that don't ...

Ukraine’s tangled political history with Russia has its counterpart in the religious landscape, with Ukraine’s majority Orthodox Christian population divided between an independent-minded group based ...

Christmas festivities aren't over just yet, as members of Newfoundland and Labrador's Ukrainian community celebrate their traditions. Ukrainian Christmas is traditionally celebrated on Jan. 7, but ...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — For the past three months, tens of thousands of Ukrainians have been singing the Ukrainian national anthem on Kiev’s central square, the Maidan, united in their dreams of change.

Members of the Brandon Ukrainian-Canadian Association Tryzub sang traditional songs as part of carolling for the Armed Forces ...

LVIV, Ukraine (RNS) — On a recent Sunday, Ukrainian Orthodox Abbott Job Olshansky faced 50 stoic parishioners and presented his case for why the community should switch to the Gregorian liturgical ...

(RNS) — For centuries, Ukraine was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the world, but never before had the Haggadah, the Passover liturgy that millions of Jews will read around their ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday condemned a move by Ukraine to ban a Moscow-linked branch of the Orthodox Church, describing it as an attack on Christianity and a blow to freedom of religion.

Russia’s two-week war to wipe Ukraine off the map has now passed its two-year anniversary. Its cost to Russia has been enormous. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s folly has resulted in nearly 400,000 ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich spoke out against “powerful voices trying to rewrite history” during an interfaith prayer service Monday to mark three years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of ...

The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy’s Fletcher Initiative on Religion,Law and Diplomacy (RLD) hosted its 2020 conference titled “Ukraine is Not Yet Dead: Religion, Pluralism and Geopolitics in ...