Visitors to the Holy Community of Mount Athos, on a hilly, heavily forested peninsula in northeast Greece, will have to do without radio, television or newspapers. Nor are they likely to see paved ...

The skulls, lined up five deep on wooden shelves, date back hundreds of years, with the names of the more recently deceased scratched onto their foreheads — Monk Theolothelis, 91, 26-6-1986, or Monk ...

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, known ...

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 ...

As Europe's only monastic state (since 1060), Mount Athos, Greece, is a truly fascinating area. Located on a peninsula in the Aegean, 100 mi/160 km east of Thessaloniki and 175 mi/280 km north of ...

Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church stands before the reliquary, a bejeweled box containing a holy relic, at the main church in St. Panteleimon, the Russian monastery on Mount Athos, in ...