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 ...

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 ...

Founder of the Knights of Columbus Blessed Michael McGivney had a deep devotion to the Sacred Heart. Knights of Columbus process with the new Knights of Columbus Sacred Heart Pilgrim Icon during a ...

STORY: Some 70 percent of Kazakhstan are Sunni Muslims, and only around one percent Catholics. The icon creater, a prominent local artist, Dosbol Kasymov, told Reuters that he considers himself as ...

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 ...

A controversial painting was stolen from the Catholic University of America campus last month. When it was replaced by a smaller copy of the same image, that painting was also stolen. The painting, ...

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 ...

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 ...