Veronica Royal’s most challenging commission was a five-foot-high icon of the Baptism of Christ, which hangs in St. Michael’s Church in Annandale, Va. An octagonal building dedicated in 1960, St.

Icons have been objects of faith, controversy and fascination for centuries. The popularity of icons, which are a rich resource for prayer, continues to this day as such artists as the Rev. William ...

Turkey's Hagia Sophia will open to visitors outside prayer times and its Christian icons will remain, religious officials said on Tuesday, after a court ruling paved the way for it to become a mosque.

The holy image helps to heal diseases, strengthens faith and protects from troubles. Orthodox believers celebrate on September 15 the day of one of the most famous and revered shrines — the Kaluga ...

VATICAN CITY — Here is the prayer John Paul II composed for the celebration of the Word, before the return in late August of the icon of the Mother of God of Kazan to the Orthodox patriarch of Moscow, ...

LAFAYETTE — St. Elizabeth Icon Studio is set back off the road on a quiet wooded lot, and the stained-glass panes in Faye Drobnic’s studio windows give it a cathedral feel. Her three students this ...