Orthodox Church blasts posters of doctors as saints in Romania
Bucharest, RomaniaAP Romania’s Orthodox Church on Wednesday criticised a billboard campaign showing doctors dealing with the coronavirus epidemic as saints with halos shaped like the virus. According to a church spokesman, the “blasphemous” campaign created by international advertising agency McCann Worldgroup in conjunction with local artist Wanda Hutira is “a visual abuse of Christian iconography.” […]
COMMEMORATION: WITH HOLY OIL AND A PAINT ROLLER – COPTIC ICON PAINTERS WORK ON MEMORIAL TO VICTIMS OF ISLAMIC STATE
In an article first published by the World Council of Churches news service, KATJA DOROTHEA BUCK reports from Egypt on how icon painters are commemorating 21 martyrs killed on a Libyan beach by the so-called Islamic State in early 2015…
SIGHT-SEEING: ICONOGRAPHY – BEYOND CHRISTIAN ART
BRIAN NIXON, in an article first published by ASSIST News Service, explores his appreciation for icons…