In the Macedonian region of Greece, there are three small peninsulas, collectively known as Halkidiki. The southern part of ...

Mark Palmer visits Mount Athos in Greece, where some 2,000 monks live in various monasteries, and where King Charles has ...

A Russian monk has been sentenced to two years in prison and fined €5,000 under Greece’s new immigration law after being ...

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 ...

Russian authorities said on Thursday they had arrested two men suspected of tunnelling their way by night into an island monastery and stealing a Russian Orthodox icon donated years earlier by ...

Twelve Churches is a survey of Christian attitudes toward various topics — beauty, power, and money — as they were expressed in various places.

The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew highlighted the central role of monasticism within the Orthodox Church during a ceremony in Thessaloniki marking the 25th anniversary of the Mount Athos Center ...

Greece's Mitsotakis said the status of the ancient St. Catherine's Monastery, located at the base of Egypt's Mount Sinai, has been secured ...

As thousands of Jewish worshipers visit over the holiday, Haredim and religious Zionists spar over religious prohibition on ...

Greece said on Thursday it had agreed with Egypt on the future of St Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Egypt's Mount Sinai ...

Suffolk County now has its first Greek Orthodox Cathedral after the worldwide spiritual leader of that religion bestowed the title on a parish in Southampton. His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch ...

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