Belgian police are searching for a priceless Byzantine cross and other treasures stolen during an armed robbery from a cathedral in Tournai, western Belgium.

On the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Pope Francis celebrated the Byzantine Divine Liturgy and called Christianity without the Cross worldly and sterile. “Crucifixes are found all ...

Ioli Kalavrezou, a Byzantine art history professor at Harvard University who has taught classes on the cross, said the restoration clearly rendered the cross closer to what it would have looked ...

Denis Onea, 18, raises the cross after being the first to retrieve it from Lake Eola during the 50th Epiphany celebration to commemorate the baptism of Jesus by the Orthodox church known as the ...

The Russian Orthodox Church said an antireligious campaign – in sympathy with Pussy Riot punk band – was under way after four large wooden crosses were destroyed over the weekend.

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a golden cross, thought to contain remnants of the Holy Cross of Jesus, in the medieval capital of the Bulgarian Empire. The cross is a striking ...