In ancient traditions, he said, the "goal was to help people encounter Jesus. If an Egyptian visited an Orthodox church in Norway … he would still recognize an icon of Jesus Christ.

Christos Paleoxaris spent his Friday perched on a small scaffold platform 20 or so feet above the marble floor below, using a paintbrush to carefully fill in a larger-than-life painting of Jesus Ch… ...

How icons are made. Iconographer Elias Katsaros doesn't actually paint the icons directly onto the wall. It's more like wallpaper, the Rev. Peter Pier of St. John Chrysostom Antiochian Orthodox ...

But Christianity, at least in its Catholic Western and Eastern Orthodox forms, has affirmed the appropriateness of using images, including icons, as a part of worship.

A video of Russian President Vladimir Putin presenting an Orthodox icon to military commanders in April 2023 is being misrepresented by posts online that say it shows him saying that Jesus was Black.

Anna Schalk of Alexandria, Va., works on an icon during a class at St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Washington, D.C., in June 2016. RNS photo by Adelle M. Banks ...

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.

SAINT CLAIR – It was a day of joy in St. Michael the Archangel Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church on Monday as everyone celebrated the Feast of the Nativity of the Lord – Christmas &#8211… ...

Last July I sat down with Fr. Silouan (Brown) to ask him about his upcoming mission trip to Kenya, on behalf of the charitable organization “Orthodox Africa” he founded as a way for the global ...

Essentially the Orthodox Church shares much with the other Christian Churches in the belief that God revealed himself in Jesus Christ, and a belief in the incarnation of Christ, his crucifixion ...

Along with images of Jesus Christ and his mother, the 12 apostles and several prophets, one of the many new icons at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in Wilkes-Barre depicts the three young men from ...

Orthodox iconography: "The Byzantine Orthodox iconography is not just an 'art,' it’s a sacred art," Theodoros Papadopoulos, Greek icon expert, explains.