A study conducted last year found that a majority of Ukrainians identified with the OCU and only 4% with the Russian-linked church, though a larger number identified simply as Orthodox Christians without specifying either church.

Source: https://www.christiantoday.com/article/ukrainian.parliament.moves.to.bar.russian.linked.church.from.operating.in.the.country/140917.htm

Coptic Orthodox Christians pray for an end to religious persecution in the Middle East at a service in Melbourne in 2020.

Source: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/christianity-s-true-peril-is-not-in-the-west-20230125-p5cff8.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national

NATO Turkey is still occupying North Cyprus (Orthodox Christians cleansed) and parts of Northern Syria – while also bombing the Kurds and Yazidis in Northern Iraq.

Source: http://moderntokyotimes.com/fresh-massacre-in-drc-g7-and-eu-fixated-on-funding-ukraine-japan/

Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on Jan.

Source: https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/world/ukraine-hails-us-military-aid-as-cease-fire-said-to-falter/article_10a62475-1ee2-59d8-8ff6-08dbf22bed36.html

Photos and videos of Russian President Vladimir Putin's bare-chested annual icy plunge in a pool to celebrate Epiphany — a ritual for many Orthodox Christians celebrating the baptism of Jesus — are widely covered by the international media every year.

Source: https://biztoc.com/x/7b84c2d3940a17ef?ref=ff

The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is built on the spot where Catholics and Orthodox Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected.

Source: https://www.christiantoday.com/article/church.leaders.condemn.radical.jewish.attack.on.armenian.restaurant.in.jerusalems.christian.quarter/139769.htm

The couple did not have far to go, and met their first Orthodox Christians at a fish and chip shop just 80 yards from their new home.

Source: https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/23305423.tributes-paid-late-keswick-orthodox-priest-john-musther/?ref=rss

The encounter will bring together leaders of Marseille’s various faith groups – Muslims, Jews, Armenian and Orthodox Christians, and Roman Catholics -- and will feature testimony of migrants, rescue groups and the pope.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/marseille-ap-pope-francis-france-mediterranean-b2414824.html

The relationship between the Russian church and Ukrainian Orthodox Christians began to sour almost a decade ago after Russia's support for separatist insurgents in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region and Russia's occupation of Crimea in 2014.

Source: https://www.christiantoday.com/article/ukrainian.parliament.moves.to.bar.russian.linked.church.from.operating.in.the.country/140917.htm

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center left, stands next to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, at the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul, Turkey on Saturday, July 8, 2023.

Source: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/07/09/zelenskyy-hails-soldiers-from-a-symbolic-black-sea-island-to-mark-500-days-of-war/