What holds Orthodox together is a common faith — believing the same things. It’s an inner connection, like a skeleton. People learn the faith from the ancient liturgies, icons, hymns ...

The Seventh Ecumenical Council dealt predominantly with the controversy regarding icons and their place in Orthodox worship. It was convened in Nicaea in 787 by Empress Irene at the request of ...

The congregants don’t just sit in pews and listen. They stand, bow and move to venerate icons or kiss the cross. They stand ...

Thus, since Byzantine times these images have been described in the Bible, yet they have not been personified with heavenly virtues. The lives of the saints Hagiographic icons became widespread in ...

The Hasidim are first of all Orthodox Jews. They believe that the ... all use words (usually prayers or text from the Bible).

In the following conversation with Gary Glassman, producer of "The Bible's Buried Secrets," Dever ... And most of them were not orthodox believers. However, we should have guessed already that ...

She talks to SBS Greek about Mona's new exhibition 'Heavenly Beings: Icons of the Christian Orthodox World' 'Heavenly Beings: Icons of the Christian Orthodox World is the first exhibition at Mona ...

For almost a thousand years the Orthodox Church, with its magnificent liturgy and iconography ... how he started his ministry by discussing the Bible with inmates. "I had no idea about that ...

The Bible must be made available to form a mature church. These are commonly accepted principles today that are found across the spectrum of almost all Protestant missionary efforts. An Orthodox ...

The Archangel Uriel is one of the seven angels who sit at the top of the heavenly food chain. He's one of seven archangels mentioned throughout Christian tradition. These archangels oversee God's ...

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has apprehended, jointly with the Federal Customs Service, a group of smugglers who had been carrying explosives hidden inside Orthodox icons and ...