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 ...
WESTFIELD — Lars Brownworth, an author, speaker and broadcaster, will lecture and discuss his book Lost to the West — the forgotten Byzantine Empire that rescued Western civilization on Friday, Feb.
Greece is often celebrated for its sun-drenched islands and ancient ruins, but tucked between its olive groves and mountain ...
POCATELLO — Ardently involved with the Gate City’s Greek Orthodox Church, Danny Thiros, the late husband of Idaho State University Athletic Director Pauline Thiros, longed for the historic church ...
Paroma Chatterjee does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Just next door to Hagia Sophia is Hagia Irene, Church of the Holy Peace, where the legacy of Byzantine Iconclasm (a religious ...
MOSCOW, July 5. /TASS/. The preservation of Byzantine mosaics in Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia will be brought into question if the historical monument, which is now a museum, is turned into a mosque, ...
DAVIE — A 25-year-old dream becomes reality today for the newly built St. Philip Eastern Orthodox Church when Metropolitan Philip Saliba ceremonially washes the white marble altar, blesses it with ...
The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense, says ...
Fairfax, Virginia – For over 15 years, Eastern Christian Bulletin Service has been providing printed, full-color Sunday Bulletin Covers to over 300 Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic parishes ...