STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The drizzle didn’t douse the flames as hundreds of members of the borough’s Jewish community came out for the pre-Passover tradition of bread burning, or Biur Chametz ...

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at the Panagia Hozoviotissa Monastery, built high into ...

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built high into a cliffside on the island of Amorgos. The tall, whitewashed complex is a speck about half-way up the precipitous mountain that plunges into the Aegean Sea. Except for a few small ...