A single minor injury was reported when a panicked visitor fell and injured their hand while fleeing outdoors. Alkiviadis ...

A 5.3-magnitude undersea earthquake struck near Mount Athos, Greece’s historic Orthodox monastic enclave. No immediate damage ...

Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 ...

There was drama in Levoča, eastern Slovakia, and for once it didn’t involve politicians. A marble bust, likely sculpted by ...

(Kent, who loved his worldly goods, had studied at the Trappist monastery at Gethsemani in his early years.) I was aiming for something much smaller than a vow of poverty, and was finding that ...

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 decades-old religious ...

The Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — or Simon’s Rock — transcends country-based branches of the Christian faith, embracing monks from across the world, including ...