For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at ...

Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea ...

Fall from these structures, as monks often did during their perilous, devotion-proving construction, and you’d have many ...

The monk who lives in the cliffs of a Greek tourist island - For more than 50 years, Father Spyridon has welcomed the ...

Formerly serving as a monastery, the grottoes are composed of 22 caves dating back to the fifth century and ... an upper ...

Pint-sized, little-known Symi beckons day-trippers from nearby Rhodes with its neoclassical, colourful main town and the revered, frescoed Panormitis Monastery ... the Blue Caves, a labyrinth ...

One thing you want to be sure to add to your itinerary is visiting the ancient Greek monasteries. Here are the top 10 ...

Archaeologists are conducting research on an 11th–17th-century rock monastery in the village of Oksanivka ... the study revealed that the area beneath the hard-to-reach caves, once used as monks' ...

Police have arrested the main suspect in the brutal murder of a Buddhist monk at a monastery in Eppawala, Anuradhapura. The suspect was apprehended in the Katunayake area following an analysis of his ...

A Syrian Muslim woman poses for a photo in front of a Christmas tree in Bab Touma neighbourhood, Myanmar monks watch in disbelief as tower block collapses near monastery ‘Soya Belacan’ couple ...