Mount Athos

Elder Paisios has been canonized on Tuesday by Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople as he was unanimously accepted by the Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church. As reported by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, he is now Saint Paisios and is added in...

Perched upon wild crags, the complex of Greek Orthodox monasteries called Meteora justify their name in Greek as each of the six monasteries looks like it is "suspended in the air" or "in the heavens above." Built on natural sandstone...

Greek Police arrested a 48-year-old wanted convict yesterday, who had got three life sentences for a series of financial crimes against the State and had been hiding for at least eight years in Mount Athos' monastery cells, as a trainee...

An important and invaluable collection of manuscripts, codes and printed documents that have been stored for centuries in the Holy Mountain of Athos and faced the danger of destruction due to aging, will be stored in digital form, secured...

AP - Dozens of Greek police have taken part in an operation to clear an apartment used as the headquarters of a rebel monastery whose monks have been declared schismatic by the Orthodox Church. Police said one monk and five...

After many decades, an important Byzantine manuscript was returned to Mount Athos in Greece. The manuscript that was stolen in 1960 by the Dionysiou Monastery in Mount Athos and was bought from a private collector by the Getty Museum in California, in 1983, will be on...

A Greek monk was killed and two firefighters injured when their vehicles fell into a 70-meter deep ravine near the chapel of Hilandarion monastery in Mount Athos, northern Greece. At 8.00 am on Thursday, the two firefighters started off on a routine...

Greek opposition leader Alexis Tsipras visited Mount Athos in northern Greece, on Thursday and Friday, after receiving an invitation from the Mount Athos Holy Community of monks. He was accompanied by his party’s religious affairs advisors, Yannis Amanatidis and Makis Lykopoulos, and his chief of staff, Nikos Pappas. Tsipras...

Greek Newspaper "Orthodoxos Typos," recently reported that the World Council of Churches (WCC) decided the repeal of Mount Athos avaton, allowing women to visit the holy area, during its latest convention in Busan, South Korea. The newspaper wrote that during the convention, 16...

It looks like Tom Cruise is taking a break from Scientology and is looking for spiritual answers on Mount Athos. The Hollywood actor's visit had been a well-kept secret among monks until a couple of tourists who were also...