Greek Reporter

The Greek Orthodox Monk Who Died Without Ever Seeing a Woman

A Greek Orthodox monk on Mount Athos, the center of Orthodox monasticism, died at the age of 82 without ever seeing a woman.
Religion News Service

Clinging to a Greek cliff, this monastery welcomes people from around the world. No women allowed

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — . The peninsula in northern Greece is no stranger to non-Greeks: of the 20 monasteries, one is Russian, one is Bulgarian and one is Serbian, and the presence of monks from ...
Yahoo

On Greece's Mount Athos, a cliffside monastery transcends country-based branches of Orthodoxy

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose ...
AOL

Monks ‘attack rival with garden tools’ at remote sanctuary

A violent clash at a monastic sanctuary on Greece's Mount Athos has left an Orthodox Christian monk in hospital, reigniting a decades-old religious dispute. The monk, transferred from the isolated ...
Yahoo

Meet the Mount Athos monks living at Simonos Petra monastery in northern Greece

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years. The all-male autonomous community, known ...
The Oakland Press

Clinging to a Greek cliff, this monastery welcomes people from around the world. No women allowed

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose ...