As the current Dalai Lama approaches his 90th birthday, the article explores the lives of his predecessors, tracing their ...

"Be careful, people are watching you." As the men tailing us come running, the monk walks away. "They" are the Communist ...

Monastery album review by Barry O'Sullivan, published on July 1, 2025. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!

Over the years, the Monastery of the Holy Savior has undergone restorations and expansions to preserve its role as a living ...

Instead of yearning for hustle, connection, or glow-ups, the women I know want to do less. And instead of isolating ...

As a Greek delegation prepares to arrive in Cairo on Wednesday to resolve tensions over the fate of St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, Ahram Online examines how the controversy surrounding one ...

Converting from Catholicism to Orthodoxy on Mount Athos, Makarios is now the monastery’s librarian. He has been living in Simonos Petra for 46 years. All (men) are welcome ...

Serafeim has been living in Simonos Petra since 2010. On what Mount Athos means to him: “The Holy Mountain is a place, I’d say, where you truly find spiritual peace.

Father Isaiah, 50: Chinese, born in Vietnam Isaiah has been living in Simonos Petra since 2006, arriving there from an affiliated monastery in France as part of a spiritual quest.