Parishioners walk in procession around the church, Friday, April 22, 2022, during a Good Friday service at St. Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in Allentown, Pa.. While Easter is the most
The sun came out as Ukrainians marked Orthodox Easter in the capital, Kyiv, on Sunday with prayers for those fighting on the front lines and others trapped beyond them in places like Mariupol.
Ukrainians on Sunday marked a sombre Orthodox Easter two months into Russia's invasion, with some braving bombardment for blessings and many of the displaced clinging on to cherished traditions.
After being forced to stand by and watch helplessly as their church burned to the ground during a Russian attack, the people of a village northeast of Kyiv have come together and built a makeshift chapel in time for Easter.
They've endured intense battles, brutal airstrikes and unimaginable loss, but this weekend many Ukrainians will attempt to celebrate one of their most important holidays of the year: Orthodox Easter.
Although expats of the two nationalities typically celebrate Easter in harmony in this strange corner of the world, this year there was unspoken tension
Hundreds crowd Arabian Peninsula's only Russian Orthodox Church, with the two nationalities' usually harmonious celebrations now mired in unspoken tensions
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