According to a story in the Old Testament, three youths were thrown into a fiery furnace by an angry king, but were not harmed. They sang amid the flames, Holy Trinity Orthodox Church pastor the Rev.

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 ...

An art piece entitled “Why?” is displayed in the sanctuary during the opening reception for a touring art exhibit by Swedish Ukrainian artist Ludmila Pawlowska, at St. Martin’s Lutheran Church in ...

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 Church on ...

“Icons were part of our church history in the first thousand years of Christianity before the split between Orthodox and Catholics.” Several icons hang in Archbishop Schwietz’s private residence and ...

The first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Israel had just been declared in March 2020 when icon restorer Zarifis Zarifopoulos removed his shoes and placed a sturdy carton covering atop the traditional ...

The head of Cyprus Orthodox Church Archbishop Chrysostomos II, right, presides over a meeting of other bishops composing the Holy Synod, the Church’s highest decision-making body at the Church’s ...

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