Mount Athos is home to twenty monasteries where only monks are allowed to live and only males are allowed to visit, women are banned.

Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on the call to holiness in today’s world is entitled Gaudete et Exsultate—“Rejoice and leap for joy” (Lk 6:23)—taken from Jesus’ proclamation of the Beatitudes.

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A scholar of religion and migration writes about the long-standing tensions among Christians regarding their moral ...

Myths have had a huge influence on the world. Although they may not be true, the events of Greek myth may have taken place in ...

A Greek Ombudsman inquiry has found that the Hellenic Coast Guard failed to follow maritime rescue protocols in the 2023 Adriana shipwreck, one of the Mediterranean’s deadliest migrant disasters. The ...