(RNS) While there have been other collections of religious pin-up men, the Orthodox Calendar aims to make a political point against the Orthodox churches that the creators say are complicit in ...

All Eastern Orthodox kept to the old calendar until 1923, when an inter-Orthodox gathering adopted a revised Julian calendar that essentially mirrors the Gregorian.

But why chose this day to celebrate? Who celebrates it and how is the occasion marked? Why the Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas on January 7? This is simply due to a difference in calendars.

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For much of the Western world, Christmas is celebrated on December 25, according to the Gregorian calendar. Yet in a distinction that dates back centuries, Orthodox Christians follow the Julian ...

Our photos take a look at past celebrations of a few Northeast Ohio congregations as they celebrated their Orthodox Christian Christmas and Christmas Eve according to the Julian calendar ...

The Eastern Orthodox Church refers to the second largest Christian congregation in the world (after the Roman Catholic Church), and includes churches originating in Eastern Europe, the Balkans ...

Sunday marks Orthodox Easter for Orthodox Christians in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the holiest day on the Christian calendar.

The most holy day on the Orthodox calendar ended in the most heartbreaking as flames ravaged the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Sava.

MOSCOW -- A group of Christian enthusiasts has released a calendar showing an unexpected face of the Russian Orthodox Church: cat-loving priests. The Priest and Cat calendar released earlier this ...

The Synod of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine has approved switching to the new Julian calendar from Sept. 1. It means the Church will celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25 instead of Jan. 7.

Orthodox Christians believe in the Julian calendar, sometimes called the Russian Orthodox calendar which dates back to 46 B.C., celebrating Christmas 13 days after Dec. 25, on Jan. 7.