The Vatopedi monastery on Mount Athos in Greece is a place of spiritual significance for King Charles III - Dimitrios Tilis/Getty Images Why has His Majesty King Charles III, the Supreme Governor of ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (Reuters Life!) - A dozen black-robed monks chant in the gloom of a candle-lit chapel as sunset brings a new day to Greece's 1,000-year-old monastic community of Mount Athos.

ATHENS, GreeceATHENS, Greece — Greek authorities on Wednesday jailed the abbot of a 1,000-year-old Greek Orthodox monastery pending trial for his alleged key role in a land swap with the state that ...

The King has sought support from a Greek Orthodox monk in the wake of his cancer diagnosis. The monarch is said to have turned to Archimandrite Ephraim for spiritual advice after the health scare, ...

The skulls, lined up five deep on wooden shelves, date back hundreds of years, with the names of the more recently deceased scratched onto their foreheads — Monk Theolothelis, 91, 26-6-1986, or Monk ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (Reuters) - At the Vatopedi monastery at the heart of a political scandal rocking Greece's conservative government, monks go peacefully about their prayers and chores, oblivious to ...

2006-10-08 04:00:00 PDT Mount Athos, Greece-- Welcome to the Monastic Republic of Holy Mount Athos. Please set your calendar back a thousand years. Clocks here run on Byzantine time, which starts at ...

Mixed online reactions have met the news that Elder Ephraim, abbot of Vatopedi monastery on Greece's Mount Athos, who was implicated in a scandal arranging land swaps between Vatopedi and the state, ...

I enjoyed Neil Averitt's story on Mount Athos ("Of monks and men," Oct. 8). I was on Athos and at Vatopedi Monastery in June and wanted to explain a few things Averitt mentioned. At most meals, ...

Hard-line newspapers distributed free at Vatopedi, for example, shower praise on Russian Orthodoxy while pillorying Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, who controls Athos, as an enemy agent.

A dozen black-robed monks chant in the gloom of a candle-lit chapel as sunset brings a new day to Greece's 1 000-year-old monastic community of Mount Athos. "Kyrie eleison (Lord have mercy), kyrie ...