MINSK, 2 May (BelTA) - Sacred relics of great martyr and healer Panteleimon will be brought to Belarus from Mount Athos in 2019 (for the period from 7 to 17 September), BelTA learned from the website ...

Greek Reporter. Mount Athos remains a destination where spirituality predominates, attracting visitors driven by faith rather ...

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 ...

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 in ...

Mount Athos, in northern Greece, is the beating heart of the Orthodox Christian faith and home to 2,000 monks. But for the past year, it has also become a place of refuge and pilgrimage for Ukrainian ...

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Monks are preparing for a major raid on Mount Athos, the Greek mountain considered a sacred site for Eastern Orthodox Christians, after Greek police sent a letter on July 16 asking for increased ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (Reuters Life!) - A dozen black-robed monks chant in the gloom of a candle-lit chapel as sunset brings a new day to Greece's 1,000-year-old monastic community of Mount Athos.