For modern skeptics, the 6th-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in bees wax and colored pigments. For believers, this ...

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 ...

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. For believers, this ...

Perfectly timed for this Year of Mercy, and ready to share the good news of what many young people are doing, is a three-part special called Icons Spotlight that will be seen on EWTN. The inspiration ...

The image is at once tender, intimate and deeply mystical. The infant Jesus reaches around the neck of his mother, pulling her close. The Virgin Mary bows her head toward her son, the two meeting ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Below a canvas of Jesus, iconographer Alex Margini touches up the angels gathering ...

There could not be a more fitting way to describe the Russian icon exhibit at the Knights of Columbus Museum (KofCMuseum.org) in New Haven, Conn., than through the official name of the show: "Windows ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - An icon of Jesus embedded in a Kremlin gate used by Soviet leaders but bricked over in the 1930s during communist times was restored on Saturday to public view. On a rainy and windy ...

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the city of Slidell, Louisiana on Tuesday for displaying a painting of Jesus in its courthouse lobby. The ACLU sued after the Slidell City ...

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. For believers, this ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. I imagine Jesus in a surgical mask, the straps tangled in the dark, spiral curls around ...

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. For believers, this ...