Orthodox Christian art has almost nothing in common with its Catholic and Protestant counterparts despite the shared ...

All many journalists want to talk about is “the guys.” That focus on young males swimming the Bosphorus has created plenty of mainstream news reports. This week’s “Crossroads” podcast focused on a BBC ...

For bishops and archbishops, the liturgical clothes for a funeral include the alb, a white tunic held by a traditional cord called cincture, the amice, a short linen cloth to cover the neck, and a red ...

Easter, the holiday when members of the Christian faith recognise the resurrection of Jesus Christ from ... groups celebrating Orthodox Easter, which include members of the Russian, Eritrean ...

Colors are important and symbolic in icons. Russian Orthodox for example use bright ... Both colors are used in the garments of Mary and Jesus at the front of the nave (where the congregation ...

But most Eastern Orthodox celebrate ... see when you walk in is Christ. And he's in big living color all over the place." A team of artists started painting these icons in 2003, and finished ...

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has given his holy blessing to the death penalty, should Russian officials wish to lift the country’s moratorium. Kirill told a veterans’ group on Monday that ...

It covers more than a thousand years of Russian ... as Jesus Christ’s representative on Earth, maintaining that Christ is the head of the church. Orthodox Christians also venerate icons of ...

This past month at St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, we had the great blessing to see two of the holy icons on our iconostasis restored, that of our Lord Jesus Christ and his all-pure mother.

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, this week defended a new Ukrainian law that aims to limit the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church in the ...