The 1,100-year-old Vatopedi monastery on Greece's Mount Athos is inaccessible by land and constantly threatened by forest fires. Sounds like the perfect job for a Unimog fire truck. The famous ...

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.

ATHENS, GreeceATHENS, Greece — Greek authorities on Wednesday jailed the abbot of a 1,000-year-old Greek Orthodox monastery pending trial for his alleged key role in a land swap with the state that ...

Hard-line newspapers distributed free at Vatopedi, for example, shower praise on Russian Orthodoxy while pillorying Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, who controls Athos, as an enemy agent.

This week, as they exited the hemicycle, the Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe were treated to a surprise: an exhibition of photographs and treasures from the Christian ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (Reuters) - At the Vatopedi monastery at the heart of a political scandal rocking Greece's conservative government, monks go peacefully about their prayers and chores, oblivious to ...

Mixed online reactions have met the news that Elder Ephraim, abbot of Vatopedi monastery on Greece's Mount Athos, who was implicated in a scandal arranging land swaps between Vatopedi and the state, ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece - An abbot accused of embezzlement, money laundering and making false statements in a government land-swap deal was arrested Saturday and placed under guard in his monastic cell, ...

The King has sought support from a Greek Orthodox monk in the wake of his cancer diagnosis. The monarch is said to have turned to Archimandrite Ephraim for spiritual advice after the health scare, ...

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 ...

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