WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The permanent collection of Purdue University Galleries is now home to one of the largest private Orthodox Christian icon collections in the country, and an exhibition of these ...

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 ...

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 ...

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EULESS, Texas (RNS) — Vladimir Grygorenko is decorating the dome of a North Texas Christian Orthodox Church with an iconic representation of the ascension of Christ. EULESS, Texas (RNS) — Vladimir ...

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 Orthodox ...

Icons — paintings that represent saints, Jesus, the Virgin Mary and biblical events — are a staple of Greek Orthodox churches, said Father Seraphim Ramos, the second priest of St. John the Baptist ...

"The image of the Holy Trinity was placed in a special icon case and installed near the right choir of the temple," the Russian Orthodox Church adds MOSCOW, January 6. /TASS/. Andrey Rublev’s Holy ...

Every year on or around Epiphany, a group of Eastern Orthodox Christian faithful from Denver forms a carpool caravan and drives three hours to the Continental Divide at Monarch Pass, Colo. They make ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...