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Clinging to a Greek cliff, this monastery welcomes people from around the world. No women allowed
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 ...
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Explainer: St. Catherine Monastery's controversy
As a Greek delegation prepares to arrive in Cairo on Wednesday to resolve tensions over the fate of St Catherine’s Monastery ...
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1,500 year old Christian monastery faces closure after Egyptian court ruling
The ruling comes in spite of Egyptian promises to maintain “the unique and sacred religious status of Saint Catherine’s ...
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 ...
Proto Thema1d
Sinai Monastery: The “red lines” of the Greek mission in Cairo – The hidden aspirations of the Egyptians to turn it into a super resort
The Egyptian government is reassuring that nothing will change in the legal status or the religious character of the ...
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Protothema.gr at Mount Sinai Monastery: “They don’t need to expel you; just don’t renew your visa”
It is only noted that some remote areas, far from the monastery’s core, are passing to the Egyptian state due to lack of ...
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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 ...