Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 ...

The Egyptian government is reassuring that nothing will change in the legal status or the religious character of the ...

Much of the Christian world, especially the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, have been roiled by reports that an ...

A monk has been hospitalized after an altercation at a monastic community in Greece, linked to a longstanding religious ...

The ruling comes in spite of Egyptian promises to maintain “the unique and sacred religious status of Saint Catherine’s ...

It is only noted that some remote areas, far from the monastery’s core, are passing to the Egyptian state due to lack of ...

Monks carry baskets of supplies to the Simonopetra, or Simonos Petra Monastery, home of the all-male autonomous community of Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, on the peninsula of Mount Athos in northern ...

or Simonos Petra Monastery, home of the all-male autonomous community of Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, on the peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece,, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. THESSALONIKI, ...