Among the several domed conical stones found along the Indus Valley, two objects stand out—a small tapered cone seated on a round base and a dome-shaped cylinder on a flat base with a protrusion on ...

Every year on Feb. 22, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, a tradition that dates back more ...

Further reading: A historic prayer gathering of Protestants, Orthodox and Catholics in papal Rome One cannot overstate how much progress was made in the 20th century: the pope, for the majority of ...

As a lifelong artist, Patricia Mattozzi embraced one of the little-known traditions of iconography: never signing her work.

The beards of Orthodox priests are some of their most striking attributes, marking them as different from other Western ...

Romania is making history by building the largest Orthodox church in the world! This monumental project is set to surpass many of the world’s most famous religious sites. But why is it being built, ...

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Orthodox Archbishop Anastasios Yannoulatos of Albania, 95, died on Jan. 25 in Greece due to a recent illness. He led the Albanian Orthodox Church for nearly 33 years. Under his leadership ...

Appropriately titled, “Selena y Los Dinos” consistently states that the success of the dazzlingly charismatic and talented Tejano icon was always a collaboration spearheaded by her father ...

The result is satisfactory, although more attentive viewers may notice minor factual inaccuracies in the film: Mr. Glazer did not always accept my orthodox approach.” The Dutch historian Robert Jan ...

For Orthodox spirituality, the ascetical disciplines of prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and manual labor build on the grace of the sacraments to slowly reform the desire of the human heart.

A review of Talha Anjum’s short film Kattar Karachi published in Icon (Karachi Without Depth, January 5) had one main question about the film — why? As in, why is this rapper making a film ...