Anna Schalk finds herself weeping each time she enters an Orthodox church and gazes at the flat, colorful icons of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. The impressionistic painter had long been drawn to ...

In Orthodox Christian iconography, a peculiar icon of Saint Christopher can be seen, depicting him with a dog's head.

I was startled beyond words when I saw it: a picture of the icon of Jesus that served as a visual accompaniment to last week’s piece in this column, together with the caption under the picture. The ...

Along the flat highway that approaches the mountains of Meteora, Greece, on the second floor of offices, is a family-­owned workshop of Byzantine icons. Father Pefkis, the iconographer, serves locally ...

Romania's Orthodox Church said on April 29 that posters depicting nurses and doctors dealing with the coronavirus outbreak as saints were an insult to Christian iconography. The campaign is “marked by ...

Last night [Dec 7] Bermuda’s Ethiopian Orthodox Church opened their doors and invited locals to learn about their traditions and view their intricately painted church icons created by an Ethiopian ...

If you've ever been in an Orthodox church, you've undoubtedly been greeted with walls covered with icons. They may look like simple drawings, but each one has a purpose and a specialized artist, an ...

(WLUK) -- Even though the American's World Cup run is over, the tournament was an opportunity for fans to see the community it created. Heat and humidity impacting cattle as cows fare worse in extreme ...

BUTTE, Mont. — Most Christians observe Christmas on December 25th. But most Eastern Orthodox celebrate Christ's birth on January 7th. For parishioners at the Serbian Orthodox Church in Butte it was a ...

For Lara Neri, painting icons is a kind of prayer. “It’s probably the most intense prayer that I do,” said Neri, a Byzantine Catholic from Dallas, referring to the dozens of hours she spent in a class ...