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 ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

We are two brothers from Melbourne, Greeks of this generation, one eighteen and one seventeen, visiting Mount Athos for the ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Christian Orthodox believers know Greece’s heavily-forested northern peninsula of Mount Athos as the “Orchard of the Virgin Mary,” but women have been strictly barred from ...

KARYES, Greece – Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived at the northern Greek peninsula of Mount Athos, on a visit to the autonomous Orthodox Christian monastic community here. Putin flew from ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (Reuters Life!) - A dozen black-robed monks chant in the gloom of a candle-lit chapel as sunset brings a new day to Greece's 1,000-year-old monastic community of Mount Athos.

Simonos Petra, a monastery on Mount Athos, embraces monks from diverse backgrounds, transcending national boundaries within the Orthodox Christian faith. This ecumenical spirit, rooted in the ...