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 ...

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 ...

Christos Paleoxaris spent his Friday perched on a small scaffold platform 20 or so feet above the marble floor below, using a paintbrush to carefully fill in a larger-than-life painting of Jesus ...

LAGKADAS, Greece (AP) — Sotirios Gkaintatzis danced across burning coals, his stomping bare feet raising sparks and puffs of smoke as he held aloft an icon of Saints Constantine and Helen. Gkaintatzis ...

Orthodox Christianity is enjoying a worldwide revival. Among the evidence cited for that is a burst of new interest in the icon. In churches known as ”Greek Orthodox,” ”Russian Orthodox,” ”Eastern ...

OLYPHANT – If you’re walking into All Saints Orthodox Church for the first time, you may find it hard to believe that it was nearly in ruins after a catastrophic fire in March 2006. With construction ...