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 ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Now, “writing” religious icons. In the Orthodox Christian tradition, icons are said to be written, not painted. The Orthodox consider making icons more a form of prayer ...

Taking steps toward healingVatican's return of icon an effort to mend rift with Russian Orthodox By VICTOR L. SIMPSON , Associated Press Nov 6, 2004 VATICAN CITY - Call it icon diplomacy.

Pope John Paul II and Russian President Vladimir Putin both expressed hope for a "positive development" in relations between the Vatican and the Orthodox church in their meeting yesterday. In a ...

John Ackerman of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago says the church won't weigh in on whether it's a miracle. But he does say the weeping icon is part of a fairly large icon screen, but the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to hand over the historic 15th-century Trinity icon from a museum to the Russian Orthodox Church because of its importance to believers, the Kremlin's ...