Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK. Nikos Papanikolaou meets monks at the heart of a rift in Eastern Orthodox Christianity Read more ...
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece. Also known as Simonopetra or Simon’s Rock, the Christian ...
ISTANBUL (RNS) — Initial reports that the centuries-old St. Catherine's Monastery would be closed were denied, but Orthodox leaders remain concerned that the monastery's new status will interfere with ...