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Imagine stepping into a church that looks fully Orthodox—icons, incense, chanting, bearded priests—but it's actually Catholic ...
Pope Francis died Monday at age 88. The Vatican said Francis suffered a stroke which led to a coma and his heart to fail, as ...
In time for Easter, here's a look at some of the incredible artistic tributes to the Christian narrative that can be found ...
Panagia Vefa is a Greek Orthodox church in Istanbul, Turkey, where people of all faiths come to make a wish on the first day ...
Vladimir Grygorenko is decorating the dome of a North Texas Christian Orthodox Church with an iconic representation of the ...
While the Italian Catholic iconography of, say, Fra Angelico, looks at home in a Western church, icons in the Russian or Greek style are offering a new way to understand familiar scenes or characters.
Starting well before dawn in a tiny, dark chapel, the Orthodox Christian monk prays to the icon of the Virgin Mary that gives its name to the whitewashed complex perched between sky and sea – the ...
Welsh singing sensation Charlotte Church has signed up for the BBC’s upcoming starry version of The Traitors - despite previously claiming she no longer wanted to make money off the back of her ...
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, released doves from the steps of Moscow's Annunciation Cathedral on Monday to mark the Feast of the Annunciation. Markets plummet as ...
Most of their prayers are in Latin, following rubrics laid down before the Roman Catholic Church’s widespread adoption of English ... There’s a red-and-gold canopy above the altar, icons of Mary and ...
Mill Bay is the midway point for members of the Island’s Coptic Orthodox Church — a Christian faith centred in Egypt — who live from Victoria to Nanaimo. At peak attendance, there are 55 ...