Here are some of the impressions most of us held about the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s: overcast skies and long lines of freezing Russians waiting in line for meagre rations of food. To add to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LOUISVILLE, Ky. — As the faithful chanted a Muslim prayer in unison, dignitaries and fans stood shoulder to shoulder to honor a man who used his celebrity to ...

Those who aspire to paint icons are faced with three tasks: First, to study the ancient Byzantine icons and what they mean while learning the precepts of religion; second, to master the artistic ...

For years, the faithful have turned to “the Miraculous Myrrh-Streaming Icon of St. Anna.” The image, commissioned in the 1990s to symbolize the mother of the Holy Virgin Mary, purportedly started to ...

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.