The tradition of icon painting began to develop simultaneously with the development of Christianity. In the modern era, avant ...

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 ...

In his homily, he reflects on the Gospel story of the risen Christ meeting his disciples on the shore and connects it to the faith of those who work and live at sea today. In conversation with ...

He also wished that "the risen Christ grant Ukraine ... where this year Easter is being celebrated by Catholics and Orthodox on the same day, may the light of peace radiate throughout the Holy ...

While Christmas marks the birth of Christ, Easter is the moment when he ... and the differences in dates between Catholic and Orthodox Easter stem from the use of the Gregorian and Julian ...

threat to life and property are momentary and will be overcome through faith in the risen Christ and hope that His kingdom will come as promised. Based on this, we are encouraged to remain ardent ...

This is considered the most important and joyous festival – the "Feast of Feasts" – in the Eastern Orthodox Church ... "Christos Anesti!" (Christ is Risen!). The congregation responds with ...

Honoring traditions dating back to the Council of Nicea in 395 A.D., Orthodox Christians around the world observed Holy Pascha, the feast of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, on Sunday with music ...

If you've ever been in an Orthodox ... Christ in the dome, there will always either be prophets or archangels telling the story of the coming of Christ. Aside from those mandatory icons, each ...

But most Eastern Orthodox celebrate ... see when you walk in is Christ. And he's in big living color all over the place." A team of artists started painting these icons in 2003, and finished ...

Stalker 2 will force you to make a bunch of tough choices, and one of the first will be who to give the Orthodox icon to: Mityay or Pomor. Both of these men would like to keep the painting ...

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 ...