Culture Minister Lina Mendoni included—came out to publicly support the museum’s stand. Four days later the artworks were ...

The true goal of the Christian life is acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.” Further reading: Lent, ‘a wake-up call for the soul,’ says Pope Francis In the Orthodox calendar, fasting days are ...

UNIONDALE, NY / ACCESS Newswire / March 21, 2025 / Katherine Elaine Schutt, BSPH, CCHW, is a dedicated community health ...

In Orthodox Christian iconography, a peculiar icon of Saint Christopher can be seen, depicting him with a dog's head.

Greek Parliament Member Nikolaos Papadopoulos targeted and damaged artist Christophoros Katsadiotis’s works, decrying them as “blasphemous.” ...

The Greek Orthodox Church's Holy Synod has denounced the content of an exhibition at the National Gallery – the Alexandros ...

Nestled on a rugged peninsula in northern Greece, Mount Athos has been a center of Eastern Orthodox monasticism for over a ...

Following the incident, the works of artist Christoforos Katsadiotis have been widely criticized as “blasphemous,” accusing him of distorting Orthodox Christian icons and presenting them as art. Nikos ...

Greece's National Gallery said a Greek lawmaker on Monday attacked four paintings in an exhibition at the museum in Athens, including one he had previously criticized as offensive on religious grounds ...

The museum issued a statement saying Papadopoulos and one other person attacked the paintings that were part of an exhibition of Greek artists titled “The Allure of the Bizarre,” throwing them to the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Greek police officers walk outside the National Gallery, as Nikolaos Papadopoulos, member of parliament of ...

Some held up Orthodox Christian icons and one clutched a large wooden crucifix. A man dressed in a traditional peasant smock scaled a lamppost with a giant Romanian flag and waved it ...