KARYES, Greece – Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived at the northern Greek peninsula of Mount Athos, on a visit to the autonomous Orthodox Christian monastic community here. Putin flew from ...

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 ...

ATHENS, Greece – Christian Orthodox believers know Greece's heavily-forested northern peninsula of Mount Athos as the "Orchard of the Virgin Mary," but women have been strictly barred from entering it ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — 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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Blame it on the Virgin Mary, but no women are allowed on Mt. Athos, the Greek island-peninsula dotted with the oldest Christian monasteries in the world. At least that’s what the ...

Assuming God is indeed just, a choice piece of real estate in Heaven has already been set aside for Paulist Fr. Ron Roberson of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at the United ...

Dina Zingaro is a 60 Minutes associate producer and co-producer of "The Resurrection of St. Nicholas." The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in New York City is the focus of a 60 Minutes story on ...

Josh Jeter, a young Lutheran Presbyterian, spends ten days on pilgrimage among the Orthodox monks of Mount Athos. You can’t read his entire long essay, most of which is paywalled, but you can read a ...

Abbot Ephrem is under arrest since 24 December after his return from the tour in Russia, with the relic of the Virgin's belt. Moscow denounces judicial persecution, but he is a controversial figure ...

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