Meet the monk who lives in the cliffs on a Greek holiday island - For more than 50 years, Father Spyridon has welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside ...

For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at ...

Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea ...

Fall from these structures, as monks often did during their perilous, devotion-proving construction, and you’d have many ...

A Greek Orthodox monastery in Italy founded more than one thousand years ago, is thriving just south of Rome in the epicenter of Catholicism. The Orthodox monastery is a remnant of ten monks belonging ...

One thing you want to be sure to add to your itinerary is visiting some of the ancient, historical Greek ... the “Holy Mountain.” Women are prohibited from entry to the Mountain, which is comprised of ...

Bare-handed monks slowly pick away the rubble that was once the wall of a historic Buddhist monastery in Mandalay, its exposed side a searing reminder of the deadly earthquake that rocked the city ...

some wearing orange vests and beanies over their habits against the February mountain chill, admitting the dull whine of power tools. Friar Anthony stands on the porch of the first timber-frame house ...

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Being part of a political economy notorious for its world-beating inequality and in a country where Africans are 80% of the population, guarantees that most Africans will be poor. This is Part 2 ...