The first thing one notices at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in the Park Merced neighborhood in San Francisco is the soaring, 100-foot ceiling, the soft, otherworldly blue-tinged light from ...

Members of All Saints Orthodox Mission walk around their temple during a procession of icons. John Hanning, the reader at All Saints Orthodox Mission, outfitted in a sunflower yellow, floor-length ...

Icons — paintings that represent saints, Jesus, the Virgin Mary and biblical events — are a staple of Greek Orthodox churches, said Father Seraphim Ramos, the second priest of St. John the Baptist ...

The first thing one notices at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church is the soaring, 100-foot ceiling, the soft, otherworldly blue-tinged light from towering stained-glass windows, and the quiet. It's ...

If you've ever been in an Orthodox church, you've undoubtedly been greeted with walls covered with icons. They may look like simple drawings, but each one has a purpose and a specialized artist, an ...

Christos Paleoxaris spent his Friday perched on a small scaffold platform 20 or so feet above the marble floor below, using a paintbrush to carefully fill in a larger-than-life painting of Jesus ...

Leonidas Diamantopoulos put brush to a large canvas spread out on the floor of his Athens studio, etching out images of a pool of water and a man standing beside it. Slowly, the story started to come ...

KEARNEY, Neb. (KOLN) - On the walls of St. George Orthodox Church are hand-painted icons of saints. “People know when they come in to change their mindset,” said John Wolf, St. George parishioner.

OLYPHANT – If you’re walking into All Saints Orthodox Church for the first time, you may find it hard to believe that it was nearly in ruins after a catastrophic fire in March 2006. With construction ...

VATICAN CITY - Call it icon diplomacy. Just as the visit of a U.S. table tennis team to China — "pingpong diplomacy" — helped pave the way for a visit by President Richard Nixon in 1972, the Vatican ...

DALLAS (AP) - Leonidas Diamantopoulos put brush to a large canvas spread out on the floor of his Athens studio, etching out images of a pool of water and a man standing beside it. Slowly, the story ...