The main traditions of the holiday. On January 7, the bright holiday of the Nativity of Christ according to the Julian calendar is celebrated by believers of the Orthodox rite in a number of churches, ...

In Bethlehem, Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem led Midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity. In Moscow, the Russian ...

Orthodox Christians around the world have been ... [Getty Images] Earlier, believers and religious leaders gathered at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, which ...

But most Eastern Orthodox celebrate Christ's birth on January ... Montana an explanation of dozens of the icons. You can see the Nativity Scene is in the process of being repaired.