Russia? They hold their observance on January 5th and is one of the reasons why the Eastern Church split with Rome.
They fear the unnatural influences of the western churches since the fall of Communism. The Russian Orthodox was tolerated by the government, as long as they didn’t cause problems. Since Christmas is not the Birthday of Christ, wouldn't it be easy to just adopt their way of doing things in the country, instead of trying to change people’s minds about it?
2006-12-29
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