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.

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 ...

The skulls, lined up five deep on wooden shelves, date back hundreds of years, with the names of the more recently deceased scratched onto their foreheads — Monk Theolothelis, 91, 26-6-1986, or Monk ...

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 ...

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, ...

The present article focuses on three hitherto unknown and several less known manuscripts of classical authors preserved in the libraries of Mount Athos. Two fragments from the monastery of Vatopedi (2 ...

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk recalled that that believers valued Athos, first and foremost, for loyalty to Orthodox Christian canons MOSCOW, February 11. /TASS/. The recognition of the ...

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.