{"id":15760,"date":"2012-01-07T13:37:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T11:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=15760"},"modified":"2012-01-07T13:37:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T11:37:10","slug":"mass-celebrations-orthodox-christmas-russia-123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/mass-celebrations-orthodox-christmas-russia-123\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass celebrations of Orthodox Christmas begin in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mass-celebrations.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15761\" title=\"Mass celebrations of Orthodox Christmas begin in Russia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mass-celebrations-280x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mass-celebrations-280x185.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mass-celebrations-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mass-celebrations.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Russian Orthodox believers flocked to churches on Saturday to attend Christmas service.<\/h2>\n<p>The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, called on the believers to always help the needy and to withstand \u201cthe cult of hasty lucre\u201d during the Christmas service he conducted at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Dmitry Medvedev attended the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior along with his wife Svetlana.<br \/>\nMedvedev also sent a Christmas greeting to the nation via his Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI congratulate all those celebrating Christmas today! I wish you jolly Christmas holidays!\u201d he said in his Twitter account.<br \/>\nRussian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended Christmas service in the Transfiguration Cathedral in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian, Jerusalem, Serbian and Georgian Orthodox churches, Athos monasteries, some Catholics and some Protestants celebrate Christmas on January 7 in line with the Julian calendar, while Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans and some Orthodox churches celebrate the feast on December 25.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mass celebrations of Orthodox Christmas begin in Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,118,14],"tags":[517,7412,20090,20092,20095,20093,20094,710],"class_list":["post-15760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-hot","category-world","tag-christmas","tag-dmitry-medvedev","tag-mass-celebrations","tag-mass-celebrations-orthodox-christmas","tag-orthodox","tag-orthodox-christmas","tag-orthodox-christmas-russia","tag-russian-president-dmitry-medvedev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}