The first thing one notices at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in the Park Merced neighborhood in San Francisco is the soaring, 100-foot ceiling, the soft, otherworldly blue-tinged light from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As millions of Orthodox Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Easter this Sunday and the miracle of Jesus Christ’s resurrection, thousands across the Chicago area are flocking to a ...

Cynthia Carter went to add to her collection of Greek Orthodox icons, the gold-accented religious paintings that exert an unmistakable spiritual attraction even though she is Presbyterian. Jeff and ...

Greek iconographer Leonidas Diamantopoulos created the icons according to dogmatic rules and the Rev. Christopher Constantinides’ vision for the sanctuary. Rose Baca - Staff Photographer The Rev.

WARREN — It was almost standing-room only as community members gathered this past week to view and pray to the Icon of Saint Paraskevi, which made a stop at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church and ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church continues to introduce traditional touches to its modest-sized white chapel, most recently adding an icon screen to its collection. An icon screen is a wall of ...

A major official of the Eastern Orthodox faith pronounced the so-called weeping Madonna icon at a Northwest Side church to be an ”inexplicable sign” of deep religious importance Tuesday, but he ...