Sisi’s official visit to Greece last week led to the already excellent diplomatic ties between the two countries being upgraded to a strategic partnership.

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

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 a diverse Christian ...

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

Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 ...

The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece.

Soumela Monastery ... from the standard Modern Greek spoken in Greece. This language serves as a vital link to their ancestral roots and remains a symbol of the resilience of their identity. The Greek ...

AMORGOS, Greece — For more than 50 years ... to care for them,” he told The Associated Press in Greek at Panagia Hozoviotissa monastery, where he said not even a rock fell during the tremors.

Mihailo Tolotos, a Greek monk ... Mihailo Tolotos was born in 1856 in Halkidiki, Greece. Tragically, his mother passed away just moments after he was born, leaving him orphaned. He was taken in by ...

The three saints were at the monastery with the village teacher and St Irene’s father when the Turks raided it. Sts. Raphael, Nicholas, and Irene of Lesvos are remembered by the Church in April on the ...

The only exceptions were Russia’s orthodox churches and monasteries. Over the last 35 years, the number of monasteries has bloomed from 18 to 788. This was particularly evident on the Solovkii Islands ...

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at the Panagia Hozoviotissa Monastery ...