For modern skeptics, the 6th-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in bees wax and colored pigments. For believers, this ...

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 ...

Renovations at Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, said to be built on the site where Jesus was born, have uncovered a mysterious icon of 'great religious and historical value'. The work began after ...

Perfectly timed for this Year of Mercy, and ready to share the good news of what many young people are doing, is a three-part special called Icons Spotlight that will be seen on EWTN. The inspiration ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - An icon of Jesus embedded in a Kremlin gate used by Soviet leaders but bricked over in the 1930s during communist times was restored on Saturday to public view. On a rainy and windy ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Below a canvas of Jesus, iconographer Alex Margini touches up the angels gathering ...

Jose Galvan and his daughter Gabriela have been hard at work over the past few days. At their stand at a market in Mexico City, they have been busy painstakingly restoring these dolls for a very big ...

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. For believers, this ...

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. For believers, this ...