PM Mitsotakis of Greece visited the monastic state of Mount Athos today, describing it as "an enlightened center of spiritual ...

Hollywood icon Mel Gibson is reportedly in Greece for a spiritual retreat before filming begins for "The Resurrection of ...

The Stukas swooped across the Aegean skies like dark, dreadful birds, but they dropped no bombs on the monks of Mount Athos. The motorized Nazi hordes rumbled across the Salonikan peninsula, but ...

In 1988, UNESCO designated Mount Athos a World Heritage Site, recognising not only its spiritual and cultural importance but also its vast collection of medieval manuscripts, religious relics, and ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — 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 ...

Military chaplain Andrii Kopchak, 43, prays on the relics of saints inside the church of the Skete of Prophet Elijah in Mount Athos, Greece, November 26, 2024. REUTERS/Alexandros Avramidis ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the monastic community of Mount Athos in Greece, one of Orthodox Christianity's holiest sites. He was the first Russian leader to visit the male-only ...

Thessaloniki, Greece (AFP)-A 5.3-magnitude earthquake on Saturday rocked the Greek Orthodox religious enclave of Mount Athos in northern Greece, Athens' Institute of Geodynamics said. The undersea ...

Mount athos, greece. Reuters. Published January 3, 2025. Share. ... Volodymyr Yakhtorovych takes communion; at the Skete of Prophet Elijah, military chaplain Andrii Kopchak prays on the relics of ...

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… ...