The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.

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

The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Robert Prevost has taken the name Leo XIV. The Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of ...

When Yugoslavia, on March 27, enthusiastically said no to the looming plague of tyranny, the Serbian Orthodox episcopate ... a socialist in clerical robes and the most freethinking Serbian ...

The princess and historian Anna Komnene recounts two versions of the story in her work The Alexiad: in one, the duke had sought a monk in Croton to play the part in the ruse; in the other, the ...

Visitors will have rare opportunity to see robes worn by revered monks who played key roles in Korea’s history In celebration of Buddha’s Birthday, the Seoul Museum of Craft Art (SeMoCA ...

But a few Orthodox Christian monks remain icons of local life — so much so that when the recent weekslong swarm of near-constant earthquakes caught Father Spyridon, as he’s affectionately ...