(KOLN) - On the walls of St. George Orthodox Church are hand-painted icons of saints ... painted canvases with saints and scenes from Christ’s life. Some of the designs and backgrounds ...

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.

They asked God to “send down the blessing ... Orthodox of many traditions. Theophany celebrates the revelation of the Holy Trinity to the world through John the Baptist’s baptizing Jesus ...

A miraculous icon of Saint Anna, the mother of Mary, will visit Hunterdon County's first Orthodox church ... from the cuff on Saint Anna's left hand and on her left shoulder veil as well.

The severed hand was ... three-headed Christ, perhaps, had the worst fate of all of the icons. The Roman-Catholic Church condemned such depictions a century earlier than the Orthodox Church ...

The leader of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine bestowed blessings upon 12 icons painted on body armor plates that saved the lives of Ukrainian soldiers as they battled invading Russian forces.

The Orthodox ... blessing of the river held at the Thamesside Walk bridge in Sonning. During the ritual, a wooden cross was dangled into the river to signify the baptism of Jesus Christ by St ...

have celebrated as a blessing. Catholics and Protestants usually observe Easter on a Sunday different from the Easter Sunday observed by the Orthodox Church, a tradition of many centuries.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis and the Coptic Orthodox pope, Tawadros II, delivered a joint blessing Wednesday from ... on their shared faith in Christ and their rejection of proselytism ...

May 27 (Reuters) - Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church ... with the obstruction of bringing the icon" to Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Kalinin was also banned ...