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PHOTO ESSAY: In a Greek island monastery, a monk has kept together faith and community for 50 years

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas — or Father Spyridon, as he's affectionately called — has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a millennium-old monastery carved ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Rabbis, monks and bats: A religion scholar and a zoologist find a new way to map early Jewish-Christian relations

(JTA) — What did rabbis of late antiquity know about Christianity? To find out, an Israeli religion scholar turned to an Israeli zoologist who studies bats. Their strange-bedfellows paper on the topic ...
Oklahoma's News

In 50-plus years at a cliffside Greek island monastery, one monk keeps faith and community together

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than 50 ...
The Christian Century

Police, monks gear up for another battle on Mount Athos

Monks are preparing for a major raid on Mount Athos, the Greek mountain considered a sacred site for Eastern Orthodox Christians, after Greek police sent a letter on July 16 asking for increased ...
KTLA

Greek monk hospitalized after monastery clash linked to decades-old dispute

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — An Orthodox ...
Seattle Times

At Christianity’s holiest site, rival monks struggle to turn other cheek

JERUSALEM — As Orthodox Christians descended on Jerusalem this Easter week to visit the holiest site in their religion, a more earthly concern hovered over the holiday: Would rival monks keep the ...