The church apologized but also said the performance had been taken out of context. Videos of the 'vertep' pageant were taken ...

St. Mary Protectress Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s pageant, known as a vertep, featured an antagonist named Moshko who danced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Metropolitan Klyment, the spokesman for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. Photo: news.church.ua In ...

Ukrainian lawmakers on August 20 approved a bill banning religious organizations linked to the Russian Orthodox Church, which Kyiv has criticized for being supportive of Moscow's full-scale invasion.

Critics say the Ukrainian vertep in its traditional form is antisemitic.

The Christmas pageant, performed on Sunday in New Jersey, also included a Hasidic Jewish caricature, carrying a sack of coins ...

Ukraine’s parliament moved forward on Tuesday with long-standing plans to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). A lopsided 265 votes to 29 were cast in favor of a bill that will shut down religious ...

Just before Christmas, the Ukrainian government added Orthodox patriarch Kirill of Moscow to its “most wanted” list, its latest move against the Moscow Patriarchate and its affiliated Ukrainian ...

MINSK, 12 November (BelTA) – The canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church is being “literally destroyed” by the country’s leadership, with priests suffering abuse at the hands of Ukrainian security forces, ...

Churches in Ukraine condemned Russian allegations against the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and expressed “profound ...