NEW YORK — On the feast of the Transfiguration in 1994, then-seminarian Elias Rafaj made the journey to visit the monastic village of Ormylia in Greece, home to the largest women’s monastery in the ...

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 ...

Generally, many of the faithful may not be familiar with the beautiful art of the Eastern Catholic Churches, such as those in the Byzantine rite (see sidebar below). One of the most beautiful ...

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 ...

Bishop Milan Lach holds up an icon of Blessed Theodore Romzha, the Ruthenian bishop of Mukachevo, Ukraine, who was killed by the communists in the 20th century. (CNS photo/Reen Nemeth, Horizons) Born ...

The Brooklyn Museum currently has a stunning exhibition titled Andy Warhol: Revelation (through June 19). The show is indeed a revelation in its emphasis on the spiritual dimensions of Warhol’s work, ...

At the corner of Normandie Avenue and Pico Boulevard, a large mural on the side of a public storage building offers a poignant message: “We are each of us angels with one wing. We can only fly ...

KIEV, Ukraine — For centuries, the golden cupolas of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra monastery and catacombs have been a refuge of tranquility and prayer in Orthodox Christianity. It is now caught in the ...

Essentially the Orthodox Church shares much with the other Christian Churches in the belief that God revealed himself in Jesus Christ, and a belief in the incarnation of Christ, his crucifixion and ...