MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — 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 a ...

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas — or Father Spyridon, as he’s affectionately called — has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a millennium-old monastery carved ...

The story of a Greek Orthodox monk, Elder Ephraim, who established 19 monasteries in North America is an epic of devotion to his faith.

My writer friend Paul Kingsnorth tips me off to a marvelous project in rural Ireland: the establishment of an Orthodox women’s monastery by some Romanian nuns. The Orthodox Monastery of the ...

AMORGOS, Greece — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its founding more ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Blame it on the Virgin Mary, but no women are allowed on Mt. Athos, the Greek island-peninsula dotted with the oldest Christian monasteries in the world. At least that’s what the ...

The third Greek Orthodox religious service since 2010 began on Wednesday at the Sumela Monastery in the northeastern province of Trabzon. The service --marking the Assumption of Mother Mary, a sacred ...

KARYES, Greece (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a Russian Orthodox monastery Saturday as he wrapped up a two-day visit to Greece, which is looking for more Russian investment and ...