In his poetry Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, often returns to icons. "I shall root you in the wood," he imagines the icon-maker Andrei Rublev saying to God. "We shall sit and speak ...

We tame Christianity by making it justify our patterns of safe, sinful living. We thus become caricatures of ourselves. Worse, we become caricatures of Christ, in whose image we are made and remade.

The histories of Moscow and of the icon of Vladimir Mother of God are eternally inseparable. How many times did the Mother of God save the capital city from enemies through the grace of her holy icon?

A Marian icon smuggled out of Ukraine for transit to London comes under fire. It sounds like the plot of a spy movie. But it isn’t — through prayer and international efforts by a host of Catholics, ...

The Kazan Icon of the Mother of God is one of the most revered holy images in the Russian Orthodox tradition. It has a unique style, bright colors and memorable composition. It occupies a special ...

YEREVAN, JUNE 13, ARMENPRESS: Icons and its application in the church are as old as the church itself. In Armenian Apostolic church the icons are in the form of canvases, which are decorating the holy ...

People think that Christian icon painting is the preserve of male painters and that only Orthodox Christians can create a good icon. But in Hong Kong Catholic diocese, a female icon painter, Cindy Ng ...

MINSK, 20 May (BelTA) – Orthodox believers celebrate the appearance of the Zhirovichi Icon of the Mother of God, one of the most revered icons in Belarus, BelTA has learned. 2026 marks the 506th ...

Rejoice, our beloved Orthodox Russia; Rejoice, for the true Faith is strengthened in thee... Rejoice, thou who prayest for us; Rejoice, our fervent Intercessor! Rejoice, O Most Pure, for from Thy icon ...