Mount Athos monk in hospital after alleged attack by rival monastery - A monk from was attacked by rivals wielding gardening ...

A monk has been hospitalized after an altercation at a monastic community in Greece, linked to a longstanding religious ...

The all-male autonomous community, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, is no stranger to non-Greeks.

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering ...

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 ...