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Egypt nationalizes ancient monastery's grounds, fraying ties between Athens and Cairo
Initial reports that the centuries-old St. Catherine's Monastery would be closed were denied, but Orthodox leaders remain ...
Orlando Sentinel15d
Clinging to a Greek cliff, this monastery welcomes people from around the world. No women allowed
The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain. The peninsula in northern Greece is no stranger to non ...
Clinging to a Greek cliff, this monastery welcomes people from around the world — as long as they’re men
The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.
Newsday18d
Meet the Mount Athos monks living at Simonos Petra monastery in northern Greece
The all-male autonomous community, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, is no stranger to non-Greeks. Of its 20 monasteries, one is Russian, one is Bulgarian and one is Serbian ...
ABC News19d
On Greece's Mount Athos, a cliffside monastery transcends country-based branches of Orthodoxy
The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain. The peninsula in northern Greece is no stranger to non ...
Greek monk hospitalized after monastery clash linked to decades-old dispute
A monk has been hospitalized after an altercation at a monastic community in Greece, linked to a longstanding religious ...
The Mountain Press2d
Egypt denies court ruling threatens historic monastery
Egypt and Greece sought to ease tensions over the historic St Catherine's monastery in the Sinai peninsula on Friday after a ...