A significant teaching is that this sacred image is a 'window into heaven', and not an object of worship. In the days of the early Church, Christians used to meet for prayer in the homes of the ...

The leader of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine bestowed blessings upon 12 icons painted on body armor plates that saved the lives of Ukrainian soldiers as they battled invading Russian forces. 1 An ...

Narva Museum has a large number of Orthodox icons in need of restoration or conservation, some of which have been waiting their turn for decades. Now, the museum has launched a donation campaign to ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. According to a recipe compiled by a Greek monk in the 1700s, snail slime is a superb binding agent ...

LACKAWANNA, N.Y. — The religious scenes playing out on the interior walls of St. Stephen Serbian Orthodox Church could have been painted centuries ago: Saints with gilded halos, winged angels hugging ...