The monks stated that the persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church continues with unrelenting intensity. The abbots and abbesses of 39 monasteries in Greece and Mount Athos have issued an open ...

The Agrafa Mountains divide the south of Thessaly from the north of central Greece ... Mother Miriam comes from Cologne and is the only German abbess of an Orthodox monastery in Greece. In a shady ...

The magnitude 6.8 quake reduced to rubble roofs and walls at a monastery and a nunnery about 15 km east of the epicentre in Tingri county, China Tibet Online reported on Sunday (Jan 12).

A Hellenistic Byzantine-era monastery featuring a unique mosaic has been discovered in southern Israel, as announced by the Israel Antiquities Authority. This 1,500-year-old site was found during ...

(AFP/representative) The magnitude 6.8 quake reduced to rubble roofs and walls at a monastery and a nunnery about 15 km (nine miles) east of the epicentre in Tingri county, China Tibet Online ...

Athos, where he was given the name Sava. He traveled to a Russian monastery, and then to the Greek monastery Vatoped. In 1197, his father, King Stefan Nemanja, joined him. The next year, Sava and his ...

The magnitude 6.8 quake reduced to rubble roofs and walls at a monastery and a nunnery about 15 kilometres east of the epicentre in Tingri county, China Tibet Online reported on Sunday.

Heavy rain and thunderstorms are forecast in the Ionian Sea (mainly the south), the islands of the northern and eastern Aegean, the Peloponnese, Central Greece, Thessaly (mainly in the east), the ...

Pico Iyer’s latest book is Aflame: Learning from Silence. To get to the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, just past Georgia O’Keefe’s Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico, you have to bump ...

Called Lalys by locals, a mispronunciation of "al-Aziz", he is credited with building a number of monasteries, castles, and churches, including Neath Abbey in south Wales, today the country’s ...

One of the most amazing accomplishments of Byzantine monasteries is the miraculous preservation of ancient Greek knowledge and literature, treasures of ancient wisdom without which our world would ...