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 ...

FILE - Monks carry baskets of supplies to the Simonopetra, or Simonos Petra Monastery, home of the all-male autonomous community of Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, on the peninsula of Mount Athos in ...

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 than a millennium ...

Nineteen Buddhist monks held a peace rally in Decatur during a 2,300-mile journey from Texas to Washington, D.C.

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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered rare Byzantine-era gold coins and a delicate ring at a remote site in the northern Judean ...

In a land where the echoes of pharaohs still haunt the ruins, a different kind of spiritual legacy is now emerging from beneath the ground—one that belonged to a humble community devoted not to ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — An Orthodox Christian monk was hospitalized following a violent confrontation at a monastic sanctuary in northern Greece, authorities said Friday. The incident is tied to a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than 50 ...