Catholic and Orthodox Christians -- and a few Protestants, too -- will celebrate Tuesday the taking up of Jesus' mother from ... Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Eastern church calls ...

For two-year-old Emilia Wadgymar, the real stars of the season are the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus. "We went to a place [where] a Christmas village train was set up," the child's mother ...

Rev. Nazari Polataiko at the Holy Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Los Angeles is still haunted by the sound of sirens, even months after visiting his native Ukraine last summer.