Christmas
Moldova celebrates Christmas today
Most of the Christian Orthodox people from Moldova celebrate Christmas today. The holiday is marked on the Julian Calendar, known also as the “Old Calendar” which is 13 days behind the Gregorian Calendar. Christmas is celebrated also today...
Moldova celebrates Christmas today
By Valeriu Gonta / Chisinau / Moldova.org / -- The Christians Orthodox from Moldova celebrate Christmas today on the Russian calendar. It is one of the most important holidays of the year. On this day the Christians go to church and pray for their health...
A Merry Christmas with Santa Claus (VIDEO)
By Diana Ungureanu/ Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ -- Christmas since all the times was a family celebration, when all the those gone away from their parents return home to be near the loved people. The adorning of Christmas tree, singing carols looking forward...
How Much Time Do Romanians Sing Christmas Carols? (VIDEO)
By Diana Ungureanu/ Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ -- Christmas carols are the most sincere and beautiful performance of Romanian soul. Carols, "these wonderful popular creations", have been preserved from generation to generation, and sounded every...
By Diana Ungureanu/ Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ -- Imagine the next scene, you wait impatiently a whole year to come Santa Claus, whom you believe and relied hopes to put the gift so much coveted and dreamt every night and on Christmas morning you find the...
Christmas Tree, What Is Your Story?
By Diana Ungureanu / Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ -- Many legends go around about the origin of the Christmas tree, without which you can't imagine winter holidays. The first legend, which relates to the appearance of the Christmas tree, has as protagonist...
Christmas in the World. Greece (VIDEO)
By Diana Ungureanu/ Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ -- In Greece, the birth of Jesus is celebrated on December 25, but Christmas is less important than the Easter. In the Christmas Eve, a frugal table ends a period of 40 days of Advent. People go to bed early...
Christmas in the World. Spain (VIDEO)
By Diana Ungureanu/ Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ -- Christmas in Spain is really a religious holiday and an occasion of joy for all the family. Christmas season begin in Spain on December 8, with the feast of the Sinless Conception or of Immaculate Birth...
Christmas in the World. Netherlands (VIDEO)
By Diana Ungureanu/ Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ -- Dutch people, like any other Europeans, wait impatiently for the winter holidays. Traditions and customs of Christmas in the Netherlands do not differ too much from those from other European countries, but...
Christmas in the World. Great Britain (VIDEO)
By Diana Ungureanu/ Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ -- In the Great Britain, Christmas is the most important celebration of the year, which is long awaited and cheerful prepared, but also with large expenses. Christmas is celebrated in England since 596 AD,...
