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 ...

For those who have been to an Orthodox service, one thing that probably stands out most in their experience is the adornment of the church with icons. Orthodox Christians make the sign of the cross ...

Thousands of dollars worth of religious artwork, called icons, line the walls of St. John the Baptist Antiochian Orthodox Church in Post Falls. But it was a $20 mass-produced picture of the Virgin ...

Large crowds gathered in downtown Bucharest, the capital of Romania, to celebrate the grand opening of the People’s Salvation ...

Many years ago, a Unitarian minister friend gave me a laminated holy card. It was an Orthodox icon, he explained. I looked down at the image of a woman dressed in rags, her hand out begging for the ...

As millions of Orthodox Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Easter this Sunday and the miracle of Jesus Christ’s resurrection, thousands across the Chicago area are flocking to a ...

The construction of the largest Orthodox Christian church in the world took 15 years, with thousands flocking to the opening. It has an inner capacity for up to 5,000 worshippers.Thousands of pilgrims ...

The mood was appropriately solemn, the faithful quiet and orderly in their movements. Fragrant myrrh filled the air. The encounters with the centers of attraction were quick, but the reactions were ...

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 ...

The world’s largest Christian Orthodox church opened in Bucharest, featuring stunning iconography and grand architecture.

Thousands of pilgrims have gathered in Romania’s capital for the consecration of religious paintings inside the People’s ...