The historic Athonite Academy at Mount Athos was instrumental in promoting Christianity and Greek identity during the Ottoman ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — 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 ...

Visitor numbers on Greece's Mount Athos hit new records in 2025, raising concerns over overcrowding and loss of spiritual ...

KARYES, Greece – Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived at the northern Greek peninsula of Mount Athos, on a visit to the autonomous Orthodox Christian monastic community here. Putin flew from ...

A sceptical Greek Australian returns to his spiritual roots on Mount Athos, where faith, ritual, and discipline offer a ...

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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Blame it on the Virgin Mary, but no women are allowed on Mt. Athos, the Greek island-peninsula dotted with the oldest Christian monasteries in the world. At least that’s what the ...

The icon of the Mother of God "Skoroposlushnitsa" is revered as one of the fastest in responding to a prayer request. Its ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (Reuters) - The Ukrainian soldiers arrived in Greece with marks of war - one with a head scar, another with both legs amputated above the knee, some with invisible mental wounds ...

Dina Zingaro is a 60 Minutes associate producer and co-producer of "The Resurrection of St. Nicholas." The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in New York City is the focus of a 60 Minutes story on ...