When I began exploring the history of Christianity and the art it inspired, I had no idea it would lead me to one of the ...

"St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska," as she is officially known, was canonized June 19 as the first female Orthodox saint from North America.

It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire ...

Several Orthodox monks and martyrs with ties to Alaska have already been canonized in the Orthodox Church in America, the now-independent offspring of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Several Orthodox monks and martyrs with ties to Alaska are already recognized as saints by the Orthodox Church in America, the now-independent offspring of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Russian Orthodox for example use bright colors, but Greek Orthodox and Antiochian Orthodox use earth tones that are similar to those used in icons painted thousands of years ago.

With hand-painted icons, the people of St. George Orthodox Church remember the lives of saints, Christ and their founders from the Middle East.

2. He is one of the foremost saints in the Russian Orthodox Church. St. Nicholas is a unifying figure among Catholics and Orthodox Christians since both churches venerate him.

A hard-line Russian bishop backed by the political might of the Kremlin could split the Orthodox Church in two.