Russian Orthodox Christians prepare to celebrate the birth of Christ according to the Julian calendar. A time of celebration and prayer especially since this is the most important date after Easter for Orthodox Christians ...
The faithful also believe that this is the beginning of the new year.
Syria, in Damascus, the Armenian community started to celebrate Christmas at St. Sarkis, an old church 200 years. This festival corresponds more accurately to the Theophany revelation. In a country at war for four years, Armenians will also commemorate the Armenian genocide by the forces of the Ottoman Empire in 1915 ... An even denied genocide by Turkey, although it acknowledges a massacre.
In Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ according to Christians around the world, the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III will celebrate midnight mass in the Church of the Nativity, 13 days after the faithful Roman Catholics.
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