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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LACKAWANNA, N.Y. — The religious scenes playing out on the interior walls of St. Stephen Serbian Orthodox Church could have been painted centuries ago: Saints with gilded halos, winged angels hugging ...

John Filippakis slept Tuesday night surrounded by saints, prophets and apostles. That celestial community may have eased the bareness of his bed — a pew in the darkened St. Paul Antiochian Orthodox ...

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 ...

KEARNEY, Neb. (KOLN) - On the walls of St. George Orthodox Church are hand-painted icons of saints. “People know when they come in to change their mindset,” said John Wolf, St. George parishioner.