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Schlagwort: Religion

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Krieg gegen die Ukraine

Do They Know When It’s Christmas?

Metropolitan Epiphanius of Kyiv attends a Christmas Eve prayer service at the St. Michael s Golden-Domed Cathedral in Kyiv, 24th December, 2023. Image: IMAGO / ZUMA Wire

by Chris Hann

Ukraine’s official Christmas holiday has been shifted from 7th January to 25th December. This calendrical change is above all a way to assert difference from Russia, but the symbolic message is not without costs.

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Corona in Ost- und Südosteuropa

Immune by Radical Faith

A chapel in Tbilisi. Source: Liana Kupreishvili

Von Liana Kupreishvili

In Georgia, some people feel like they have to choose between saving their health or their souls.

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Corona in Ost- und Südosteuropa

Im Osten, zu Ostern

Die Basilius-Kathedrale in Moskau. Bild: (beschnitten) m-guffler via Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0

Von Klaus Buchenau

Zum orthodoxen Osterfest (19.4.) stellen Corona-Einschränkungen Gläubige vor Herausforderungen. In Russland hilft manchmal nur noch Humor.

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