The story of a Greek Orthodox monk, Elder Ephraim, who established 19 monasteries in North America is an epic of devotion to his faith.

Mount Athos monk in hospital after alleged attack by rival monastery - A monk from was attacked by rivals wielding gardening ...

A monk has been hospitalized after an altercation at a monastic community in Greece, linked to a longstanding religious ...

The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.

In a more than 1,000-year-old tradition, women are banned from ... spend a few days at Mount Athos as visitors, only Orthodox men can become monks. Most of Simonos Petra’s 65 monks hail from ...

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — ...

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — ...