Orthodox Christians face accusations of idolatry claiming that the veneration of icons amounts to worship of the images ...

MIDDLETOWN — As a young boy in Greece, Nick Ververis spent his summer days peeking through the stained-glassed windows watching painters meticulously creating icons. Over time, Ververis, then 12 or 13 ...

Icons — paintings that represent saints, Jesus, the Virgin Mary and biblical events — are a staple of Greek Orthodox churches, said Father Seraphim Ramos, the second priest of St. John the Baptist ...

Christos Paleoxaris spent his Friday perched on a small scaffold platform 20 or so feet above the marble floor below, using a paintbrush to carefully fill in a larger-than-life painting of Jesus ...

POCATELLO — Ardently involved with the Gate City’s Greek Orthodox Church, Danny Thiros, the late husband of Idaho State University Athletic Director Pauline Thiros, longed for the historic church ...

Icons seem to be everywhere. Smartphones have them; computers, too. They partner illustration with desired information. Churches, too, boast their share of images that do roughly the same thing. Front ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Preparation for the 50th New Orleans Greek Festival began in February, filling the Hellenic Cultural Center on Bayou St. John with volunteers and the fragrance of the parish's famous homemade Greek ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Christos Paleoxaris spent his Friday perched on a small scaffold platform 20 or so feet above the marble floor below, using a paintbrush to carefully fill in ...