Explore the Majestic Monasteries on Top of the World.

Monks have been seeking spiritual enlightenment at these sites on steep cliffs, inside caves and atop an extinct volcano for ...

The abbots and abbesses of 39 monasteries in Greece and Mount Athos have issued an open letter supporting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).

Explore how climate change threatens 50 UNESCO World Heritage sites around the globe, from melting glaciers and rising sea ...

The cold front has primarily impacted northern Greece, namely West, Central, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. The monasteries in Meteora, Greece, covered in a thick blanket of snow. Credit: Zisis ...

Pico Iyer’s latest book is Aflame: Learning from Silence. To get to the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, just past Georgia O’Keefe’s Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico, you have to bump ...

Called Lalys by locals, a mispronunciation of "al-Aziz", he is credited with building a number of monasteries, castles, and churches, including Neath Abbey in south Wales, today the country’s ...

One of the most amazing accomplishments of Byzantine monasteries is the miraculous preservation of ancient Greek knowledge and literature, treasures of ancient wisdom without which our world would ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a significant Christian monastery dating back to roughly 1,500 years ago at a site in Israel. The remains include a remarkable colorful mosaic floor ...

The men, 22 in all, had taken a bus more than 1,000 kilometers from the Ukrainian city of Lviv to a monastery built on a cliff on the mountainous Athos peninsula in northern Greece, where they ...

The men, 22 in all, had taken a bus more than 1,000 kilometres from the Ukrainian city of Lviv to a monastery built on a cliff on the mountainous Athos peninsula in northern Greece, where they ...