Russian drone strikes on June 17 devastated Odesa’s historic center, damaging South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University, the Nativity of Christ Cathedral, and the city’s oldest infectious ...

If you've ever been in an Orthodox ... Christ in the dome, there will always either be prophets or archangels telling the story of the coming of Christ. Aside from those mandatory icons, each ...

(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 ...

icons are called windows into heaven. So they all tell a story about the life of Christ and the apostles and the saints," said Paul Novak, St. Matthew Orthodox Church parish council president.

But most Eastern Orthodox celebrate Christ's birth on January 7th ... gave NBC Montana an explanation of dozens of the icons. You can see the Nativity Scene is in the process of being repaired.

The main traditions of the holiday. On January 7, the bright holiday of the Nativity of Christ according to the Julian calendar is celebrated by believers of the Orthodox rite in a number of churches, ...

Finding the light in the night Father Issa Thaljieh, the parish priest of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Church of the Nativity ... that was born when Jesus Christ was born here is the light ...

I STARTED painting icons in 2010 while a member of the Common Friars, a small monastic farming community in Ohio. My icons often mix classic orthodox iconographic imagery ... under the cover of ...

1300 East, painting the walls with biblical scenes and Orthodox icons. Saturday’s ceremony ... and the king of glory shall enter.” Christ already is in heaven, explained Savas.

But then I heard whispers about the Church of Nativity of Christ ... an Orthodox Church, disguised as a humble house on the outside, but richly decorated with strange and perplexing icon paintings ...

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.