The seal of the Resurrection is so powerful that in extreme cases even the unbaptized can administer baptism—using water or ...

Pope Leo XIV urges a common Easter date for Catholics and Orthodox at a Vatican symposium marking 1,700 years since the ...

The Greek Orthodox Church of the Pantocrator in Patras, Greece, stands out for having been modeled after Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.

Recognizing the essential tenets of faith that Catholics and Orthodox share should be the lens through which they discuss the ...

If you've ever been in an Orthodox ... Christ in the dome, there will always either be prophets or archangels telling the story of the coming of Christ. Aside from those mandatory icons, each ...

(KOLN) - On the walls of St. George Orthodox Church are hand-painted icons of saints ... painted canvases with saints and scenes from Christ’s life. Some of the designs and backgrounds ...

On this site, we are coexisting with Christian communities: Russian Orthodox ... at the Baptism site; that is particularly symbolic. The Church is full of images that evoke Jesus Christ’s ...

"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the ...

John the Baptist is almost always there alongside him, and sometimes (often in Orthodox icons) there is a small ... aren’t we told that this is a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins? The ...

But most Eastern Orthodox celebrate ... see when you walk in is Christ. And he's in big living color all over the place." A team of artists started painting these icons in 2003, and finished ...

Young men plunged into rivers and lakes across the Balkan country, which is primarily Orthodox, to retrieve crucifixes tossed by priests in ceremonies commemorating the baptism of Jesus Christ.