When Bob Dylan became the first musician to win the Nobel Prize in Literature this month, Jewish fans celebrated. Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman, was seen as a true American poet, a Jew to be proud of.

For modern skeptics, the sixth-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in beeswax and colored pigments. For believers, this ...

An Indigenous image of Jesus Christ by an acclaimed iconographer has been removed from a New Mexico church for unspecified reasons, days after the U.S. bishops approved a pastoral framework for ...

The focus of this tense, unresolved episode is the 8-foot Apache Christ painting. For this close-knit community, it is a revered icon created by Franciscan friar Robert Lentz in 1989. It depicts ...

During a Dec. 14 blessing of an icon of the crucifixion that hangs above the main entrance of Saint Hugh of Grenoble Church in Greenbelt, Maryland, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy said the image reminds ...

A Controversial Infant Jesus Is Stolen From a Belgian Nativity Scene BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities are mystified over a brazen theft over the weekend from a Christmas Nativity scene of an icon ...

At the Catholic University of America, an icon entitled "Mama" that portrayed a Black Christ — the image also evoked George Floyd, depending on how the viewer engages the painting — cradled by a Black ...

MESCALERO, New Mexico Anne Marie Brillante never imagined she would have to choose between being Apache and being Catholic. To her, and many others in the Mescalero Apache tribe in New Mexico who are ...

An Indigenous image of Jesus Christ by an acclaimed iconographer has been removed from a New Mexico church for unspecified reasons, days after the U.S. bishops approved a pastoral framework for ...