Icons' roots are in Byzantine culture and history, and Eastern Orthodox icons often portray Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and numerous saints and martyrs. The majority are painted in egg tempera on ...

In ancient traditions, he said, the "goal was to help people encounter Jesus. If an Egyptian visited an Orthodox church in Norway … he would still recognize an icon of Jesus Christ.

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Artist Miltiadis Afentoulis of Nyack is painting eight Byzantine-style icons depicting the life events of Jesus on the walls of the sanctuary of St. George’s Greek Orthodox ...

To mark Jesus’ destruction of Hades (the Greek term is synonymous with Hell; Orthodox do not believe in purgatory) and freeing of the dead, parishioners threw bay leaves and flowers into the air ...

In ancient traditions, he said, the “goal was to help people encounter Jesus. If an Egyptian visited an Orthodox church in Norway … he would still recognize an icon of Jesus Christ.

MOSCOW — An icon held sacred by Pope John Paul II has been returned to Russia as a gesture of good will intended to help bridge the long-standing divide between the Roman Catholic and Russian ...

<p>Along with images of Jesus Christ and his mother, the 12 apostles and several prophets, one of the many new icons at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in Wilkes-Barre depicts the three young men ...

Christos Paleoxaris spent his Friday perched on a small scaffold platform 20 or so feet above the marble floor below, using a paintbrush to carefully fill in a larger-than-life painting of Jesus Ch… ...

For modern skeptics, the sixth-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in beeswax and colored pigments.

Jesus, the paradigm for kenoticism, made himself a servant for the sake of our suffering creation. What does scare Orthodox theologians is dualism.

LOWELL — As the Greek Orthodox faithful gather today to celebrate the Feast of the Resurrection of the Lord — Pasha — the eyes of those at Transfiguration of Our Saviour Church ma… ...