A year of faith through AP’s lens — from crowded squares to quiet acts of devotion. A reveler holds her dog as she ...

Congratulations are in order for actor Oros Mampofu and his wife Bianca after announcing the arrival of their bundle of joy. The doting parents took to their timeline to share images from the ...

Greece’s Mount Athos is at the heart of a rift in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Nikos Papanikolaou visits monks vowing to protect their ultra-orthodox way of life Show more **This programme contains ...

It is speculated that Gibson's visit to the Hilandar monastery is connected to the continuation of 'The Passion of the Christ,' See more on ...

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 a diverse Christian ...

A 5.3-magnitude earthquake on Saturday rocked the Greek Orthodox religious enclave of Mount Athos in northern Greece, Athens' Institute of Geodynamics said. Mount Athos, an Orthodox spiritual centre ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — 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 in ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — 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 ...

A violent clash at a monastic sanctuary on Greece's Mount Athos has left an Orthodox Christian monk in hospital, reigniting a decades-old religious dispute. The monk, transferred from the isolated ...