Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Journey to the Holy Mountain: What an unbeliever discovered at the monasteries of Mount Athos

So how does an unbeliever like me end up in a place that, according to my spiritual cohabitants for seven nights, lies closest to God? Perhaps because there must be a place for middle-aged Australian ...
Cyprus Mail

Christodoulides visits Mount Athos

President Nikos Christodoulides is in Thessaloniki on Wednesday, where he is set to visit with Greek officials before heading to the Mount Athos monastery. The Mount Athos monastery is known as the ...
Reuters

Monastic Mount Athos offers a glimpse back in time

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (Reuters Life!) - A dozen black-robed monks chant in the gloom of a candle-lit chapel as sunset brings a new day to Greece's 1,000-year-old monastic community of Mount Athos.
Neos Kosmos

Two brothers, one journey to Mount Athos

We are two brothers from Melbourne, Greeks of this generation, one eighteen and one seventeen, visiting Mount Athos for the ...
The Malta Independent

A Journey to Mount Athos: Between Catholicism and Orthodoxy

DAVID CARABOTT who enjoys travelling discovers the peace and tranquility preserved in Mount Athos and it’s all male community My pilgrimage to the Orthodox theocracy of Mount Athos (the Holy Mountain) ...
SFGate

OF MONKS AND MEN / Mount Athos, Greece, is a world unto itself -- with no females allowed -- that runs pretty much the way it did during the days of the Byzantine Empire

2006-10-08 04:00:00 PDT Mount Athos, Greece-- Welcome to the Monastic Republic of Holy Mount Athos. Please set your calendar back a thousand years. Clocks here run on Byzantine time, which starts at ...