For the hermit monks of Karoulia, the most remote area of Mount Athos, climbing dangerous rocks and prayer are a part of ...

Mihailo Tolotos, born in 1856, lived an extraordinary life of isolation on Mount Athos, a Greek monastery where women are ...

CAMPBELL COUNTY, Va. (WSET) — Fire crews worked to ensure a porch fire did not spread to the interior of a home Monday, ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — Monks are preparing for a major raid on Mount Athos, the Greek mountain considered a sacred site for Eastern Orthodox Christians, after Greek police sent a letter on July 16 ...

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The holy peninsula of Mount Athos reaches 31 miles out into the Aegean Sea like an appendage struggling to dislocate ...

However, few are as unique or as shrouded in mystique as Mount Athos, an autonomous monastic state in Greece. Nestled on a rugged peninsula in northern Greece, Mount Athos has been a center of ...

The Greek authorities point out that Mt. Athos is an autonomous region within Greece and removal of timber from the forests by monks resident in Mt. Athos is permitted under a law gazetted in 24 ...

One thing you want to be sure to add to your itinerary is visiting the ancient Greek monasteries. Here are the top 10 monasteries in Greece.

The James Fanshawe-trained four-year-old was just as much of an eyecatcher as Popmaster, as he stumbled at the start and ...

TASS/. Mount Athos is to a great extent a source of moral foundations of the society, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday on a visit to Mount Athos to mark the 1,000-year presence of ...

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