The Cycladic Island Stealing the Spotlight from Santorini Discover Amorgos, the Cycladic island hailed by French media as a ...

Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelaaty on Wednesday told his Greek counterpart George Gerapetritis that the spiritual and religious value of the Saint Catherine Monastery and surrounding ...

AMORGOS, Greece — For more than 50 years ... care for them,” he told The Associated Press in Greek at Panagia Hozoviotissa monastery, where he said not even a rock fell during the tremors.

an Orthodox monk who since 1971 has prayed and ministered at the gleaming white Panagia Hozoviotissa monastery, which is built into the face of a cliff on the island of Amorgos in the Aegean Sea.

Panagia Hozoviotissa, whose image is on the cover ... of worship in Europe that’s also a tourist attraction. But Amorgos’ monastery serves another function too — a crucial reference point ...

(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at the Panagia ...