BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Now, “writing” religious icons. In the Orthodox Christian tradition, icons are said to be written, not painted. The Orthodox consider making icons more a form of prayer than art ...

Along the flat highway that approaches the mountains of Meteora, Greece, on the second floor of offices, is a family-­owned workshop of Byzantine icons. Father Pefkis, the iconographer, serves locally ...

Orthodox Christians revere Russian icons as sacred devotional pieces. But to others around the world, they are magnificent treasures, collected and cherished for their beauty, artistry and history.

Many years ago, a Unitarian minister friend gave me a laminated holy card. It was an Orthodox icon, he explained. I looked down at the image of a woman dressed in rags, her hand out begging for the ...

DALLAS (AP) - Leonidas Diamantopoulos put brush to a large canvas spread out on the floor of his Athens studio, etching out images of a pool of water and a man standing beside it. Slowly, the story ...

Orthodox Christians consider writing icons to be a significant and scared form of prayer. In the Orthodox Christian tradition, icons are said to be written, not painted. The Orthodox consider making ...