Sunday, April 15, 2012

How to celebrate Easter in Ukraine and Russia.

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Today is Easter Sunday in Ukraine. This may seem out of the ordinary to Westerners that celebrated this holiday last week but this is a result of the difference between calendars. The West uses the Julian and the east uses the Gregorian. (Next year the days will be celebrated over a month apart but then in 2014 they will occur on the exact date.) There are some similarities in the celebrations between the two cultures but there are also some major differences. In the Roman Catholic Church, (and also with some Protestant religions),...
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