RHODES, Greece — As flames approached the 19th-century Monastery of Panagia Ipseni, the nuns inside steeled themselves. A village seer in the 1990s dreamed of women in charge of the sanctuary ...

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, transcends country-based branches of the Christian faith, embracing monks from across the world. The ...