Controversy followed after an artist's works were vandalized by a Greek MP, labeling them as blasphemous for distorting ...

Two large-scale icon paintings dominated the sanctuary of New York’s St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral, during its Sts.

The attempt to project contemporary politics or our own aspirations onto such a sacred figure is always problematic.

The oldest known depiction of the Crucifixion of Christ is housed in the Greek Orthodox Holy Monastery of St. Catherine on ...

For the past year, the palms Rev. Robin Dodge and his family used in last year’s Palm Sunday procession sat next to two holy ...

Pancake Day, also known as Shrove Tuesday, is celebrated on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. It's a day of feasting and ...

Only since the First World War have there been any clean-shaven Orthodox monks or priests, with closely-shorn hair, but this fashion has been continued among some of the clergy down to our own day. An ...

Following decades of iconoclastic policy, Irene orchestrated the restoration of icon veneration during the Second Council of Nicaea in 787. This act, celebrated by iconophiles, solidified her image as ...

Across Russia, the devout celebrate Epiphany on January 19 by immersing themselves in frigid water through holes cut through the ice of lakes and rivers, imitating the baptism of Jesus Christ in ...

“Before being an athlete, I am an Orthodox Christian,” said Djokovic in 2011. Djokovic is a member of the Serbian Orthodox Church. However, after his Round 4 match of the Australian Open in 2009, he ...

“We actually have an Orthodox life in our house and every day of our life, and they are saying that it’s simply to deceive and to bring Jewish people to believe in Jesus.” He denies the clai ...