The latest round of iconography is being installed at St. Matthew Orthodox Church in Green Bay. Officials say the tradition ...

Kollyva, the boiled wheat-based sweet offered at Greek Orthodox memorial services for the souls of the dead, has roots in ...

But most Eastern Orthodox celebrate Christ's birth on January ... A team of artists started painting these icons in 2003, and finished a few years later. "The lead artist Uglishe Melitios, said ...

A bejeweled icon, or encolpion, worn by Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem ... marking the site of Christ's burial and Resurrection. Photograph by Alessio Romenzi Father Solana ...

The episode validates the death and resurrection of Jesus and the meaning ... Jonathan, who’s editor of the Orthodox Arts Journal, says the Orthodox Church considers that image the first icon of the ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities ... Easter Saturday is known as the The Resurrection or “Anastasis”. Preparations for the jovial dinner begin early in the ...

Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter ... who then carry them around the church while following an icon of ...

A local pilgrimage that kicked off in January in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis offers an opportunity to celebrate the newly canonized Martyrs of Damascus and to, in prayer, walk ...

and resurrection (or ascent)’. The focal point of the church's interior is its stunning cascade of wooden beams falling from its ceiling and a large cross that presides over the podium. A minimalist ...