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 ...

Founder of the Knights of Columbus Blessed Michael McGivney had a deep devotion to the Sacred Heart. Knights of Columbus process with the new Knights of Columbus Sacred Heart Pilgrim Icon during a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MANILA (Reuters Life!) - With red lanterns and Lunar New Year banners swinging in the breeze, Manila's bustling Chinatown looks like any other welcoming the Year of the Rat -- except for the Virgin ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...