Request about Baptism of the Lord on Jan 19 tops Ukrainian trends on Google
His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry and believers on the day of the Baptism of the Lord. January 19, 2026. Photo: UOC
Ukrainians in 2026 continued to celebrate the Baptism of the Lord according to the old style – January 19. This is evidenced, in particular, by data from Google Trends service.
Holiday-related queries "Happy Baptism of the Lord" and "January 19 feast" made it to Google's top searches on this day.
Earlier, on January 7, similar queries about the Nativity of Christ ended up in the TOP-10. Ukrainians searched for: "Merry Christmas," "Happy Christmas," and "Christmas cards."
As UOJ wrote, Volodymyr Zelensky by his decree abolished the official celebration of the Nativity of Christ on January 7 and established "Programmer's Day" on this date. In his Christmas greeting on the evening of December 24, 2025, he spoke about the "unity" of Ukrainians, claiming that the country allegedly celebrates Christmas simultaneously, "as one big family".
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