{"id":67264,"date":"2025-12-22T04:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67264\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T04:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:39:11","slug":"erie-ukrainian-church-invites-community-in-for-christmas-service-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67264\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Ukrainian Church Invites Community In For Christmas Service | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Ukraine Church.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>White House officials are calling talks today to end the nearly 4-year-war between Russia and Ukraine \u2014productive and constructive.<\/p>\n<p>As the Trump administration presses for peace, Ukrainians around the world are celebrating another Christmas with their homeland at war.<\/p>\n<p>And that included the First Ukrainian Pentecostal Church on Pine Avenue in Erie.<\/p>\n<p>They held a special Christmas service Sunday afternoon open to their English-speaking friends and to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The worship service featured the First Ukrainian Pentecostal Youth Choir.<\/p>\n<p>The church re-told the story of the birth of Jesus Christ, reflecting on what the moment meant then and what it still means for Ukrainian Christians and for the entire world.<\/p>\n<p>After the church service, as a gesture of hospitality, visitors were invited in to enjoy a Ukrainian Christmas dinner with the congregation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White House officials are calling talks today to end the nearly 4-year-war between Russia and Ukraine \u2014productive and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[35659,136,138,137,35660,35658,26544],"class_list":{"0":"post-67264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-christmas-service","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-headlines","11":"tag-erie-news","12":"tag-first-ukrainian-pentecostal-church","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}