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 ...

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.

5 questions about the global icon of Mary you see every Christmas. The Virgin of the Passion, also known as Our Lady of Perpetual Help, has been called the most popular Christian icon of the 20th ...

Early Christian icons may have derived some of their stylistic elements from pagan religious portraits, according to some ...

Catholic and Orthodox Christians -- and a few Protestants, too -- will celebrate Tuesday the taking up of Jesus' mother from earth to heaven. The Western church refers to it as the Solemnity of the ...

A Kazakh artist is creating possibly the first-ever painting of Mary and the Child Jesus as native Kazakhs; it will be displayed in Kazakhstan’s only Marian shrine. It is hoped that the icon, in the ...