FOR A FIRST-TIME visitor, Sunday services at St. Spiridon Orthodox Cathedral evoke elaborate ... their sanctuary and stripped it bare, removing icons, altars and religious art.

On the feast of Pentecost in May 2024, Father Jim Perkl, pastor of Mary, Mother of the Church in Burnsville, began thinking ...

In Orthodox Christian iconography, a peculiar icon of Saint Christopher can be seen, depicting him with a dog's head.

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

Originally conceived in the mid-1800s to honor Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich (who died in Nice), the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral wasn't completed until the early 20th century.

Orthodox Pentecost is a national holiday in Cyprus and is also observed by the more than 250 million Orthodox believers around the world. Aside from Easter, Pentecost is the highest feast on the ...

In the late 1800s, Nicola Yanney came from Lebanon to settle on a farm near Gibbon, Nebraska. He later became a St. George priest and traveled across the U.S.

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

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities ... Devout followers are said to light an oil candle inside the home beside their icon-candle and keep this light burning ...