TBILISI -- A court in the Georgian capital on February 2 sentenced activist Nata Peradze to five days of detention after she was found guilty of defacing an image of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin on an ...

The head of Cyprus Orthodox Church Archbishop Chrysostomos II, right, presides over a meeting of other bishops composing the Holy Synod, the Church’s highest decision-making body at the Church’s ...

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.

May 27 (Reuters) - Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, on Saturday dismissed his expert on art and restoration for obstructing the transfer of a historic 15th-century Trinity icon ...

May 16 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to hand over the historic 15th-century Trinity icon from a museum to the Russian Orthodox Church because of its importance to believers, ...

“Icons were part of our church history in the first thousand years of Christianity before the split between Orthodox and Catholics.” Several icons hang in Archbishop Schwietz’s private residence and ...

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 ...

An art piece entitled “Why?” is displayed in the sanctuary during the opening reception for a touring art exhibit by Swedish Ukrainian artist Ludmila Pawlowska, at St. Martin’s Lutheran Church in ...

MIDDLETOWN — As a young boy in Greece, Nick Ververis spent his summer days peeking through the stained-glassed windows watching painters meticulously creating icons. Over time, Ververis, then 12 or 13 ...

More info: In conjunction with the exhibit are five events, the last of which is a talk on iconography from Mary Flerchinger, a Peola, Washington, icon writer. Flerchinger’s talk is from 2-4 p.m. on ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — An 18th-century icon that a British officer spirited out of war-wracked Cyprus in 1974 was returned Wednesday to the island’s Orthodox Church by the officer’s son to reunite it ...