Throughout its centuries-long existence, the Hagia Sophia has been a place of worship for many different religions and ...

or the art of creating depictions of icons or sacred images of a holy person or event. His artistic skill has taken him to Christian Orthodox churches around the world. Grygorenko’s ...

Yannis Tsarouchis was one of the most prominent figures of Greek art and his work has just begun to garner attention outside ...

The Grand Imam also remembered Pope Francis’s lasting contributions to global peace and religious harmony ... Aju Abraham, Vicar, St. Thomas Orthodox Cathedral in Dubai, said, “I am deeply ...

The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is being laid to rest Saturday in a ceremony reflecting his priorities as pope and wishes as pastor: Presidents and princes will attend his funeral in St. Peter’s ...

Though presidents and princes attended the Mass in St. Peter’s Square, prisoners and migrants will welcome him at the basilica across town where he will be buried.

Over three days this week, more than 250,000 people stood for hours in line to pay their final respects while Francis’ body lay in state in St. Peter’s Basilica.

“This room was filled with religious icons,” he told me ... the iconostasis hung inside a wooden church at the Manyava Orthodox Monastery in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, in ...

World leaders and Catholic faithful have said farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral that highlighted his concern for people on the “most peripheral of the peripheries” and reflected his wishes to be r ...