who possess explosives and guns inside the monastery,” he added. The Esphigmenou monks residing on Mount Athos have rebranded as Genuine Orthodox Christians, to distinguish themselves from ...

For the past thousand years or so, a community of Eastern Orthodox ... foot on Mount Athos, and blessed its pagan inhabitants, who then converted). He forms an intense bond with his monastery's ...

TASS/. The Russian Orthodox Monastery of St. Panteleimon, or Rossikon, on Mount Athos is not planning to close its mission in Moscow, Hierodeacon Filosof, the monastery’s deputy father superior ...

and motorboats carrying male prostitutes are constantly reported chugging into the monastery harbors. Today many Greek laymen regard Mount Athos as a senile, decadent, insufferable vestige of its ...

Mihailo Tolotos, a Greek monk, lived 82 years on Mount Athos, never seeing a woman or experiencing modern life, following ancient monastic rules.

and between 1259 and 1306 the pope’s private army devastated Mt. Athos several times. Monks of Zographou and Vatopedi monasteries and the Protaton were martyred for the Orthodox Faith, and the monks ...

An Orthodox spiritual centre since 1054, Mount Athos has enjoyed an autonomous statute since Byzantine times. The 'Holy Mountain', which is forbidden to women and children, is also a recognized ...

TASS/. Russian Orthodox Church believers will not be able to worship and receive communion at Mount Athos churches and cathedrals because of the severance of relations between the Moscow ...