Orthodox Christians face accusations of idolatry claiming that the veneration of icons amounts to worship of the images themselves.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The permanent collection of Purdue University Galleries is now home to one of the largest private Orthodox Christian icon collections in the country, and an exhibition of these ...
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 ...
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 ...
(CBS) --Worshippers are flocking to a church in the southwest suburbs, where a religious icon is secreting fragrant oil. The scented oil is emitting from an icon of St. John the Baptist at Assumption ...
Along the flat highway that approaches the mountains of Meteora, Greece, on the second floor of offices, is a family-owned workshop of Byzantine icons. Father Pefkis, the iconographer, serves locally ...
PARKVILLE, Md. (WJZ) — A 120-year-old Orthodox icon has just made the over 5,000-mile journey from Rhodes, Greece to the Baltimore area. "It's the first time that this icon has ever left the village," ...
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