MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose ...
A violent clash at a monastic sanctuary on Greece's Mount Athos has left an Orthodox Christian monk in hospital, reigniting a decades-old religious dispute. The monk, transferred from the isolated ...
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years. The all-male autonomous community, known in ...
The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose a diverse Christian ...
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years. The all-male autonomous community, known in ...
Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, transcends country-based branches of the Christian faith, embracing monks from across the world. The ...