2006-10-08 04:00:00 PDT Mount Athos, Greece-- Welcome to the Monastic Republic of Holy Mount Athos. Please set your calendar back a thousand years. Clocks here run on Byzantine time, which starts at ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years. The all-male autonomous community, known in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — Brother Job twists and jiggles the big brass key and eases open the charnel house door. My eyes struggle in the dimness, and I blink in ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose ...

Bob Simon gets rare access to Mount Athos, a remote peninsula in northern Greece that is the spiritual capital of Orthodox Christianity. For more than a thousand years, monks on Mount Athos have lived ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a monastery on Greece's Mount Athos, Father Makarios is reading the gospel as he waits for his vaccination. A drive is on to ...

Visitors to the Holy Community of Mount Athos, on a hilly, heavily forested peninsula in northeast Greece, will have to do without radio, television or newspapers. Nor are they likely to see paved ...

Dina Zingaro is a 60 Minutes associate producer and co-producer of "The Resurrection of St. Nicholas." The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in New York City is the focus of a 60 Minutes story on ...

On a small, rocky peninsula jutting out into the Aegean Sea is Mount Athos, home to 20 of the world's most ancient and remote monasteries. Today, the mountain is an "Autonomous Monastic State" of ...

On the occasion of the exhibition marking the 850th anniversary of the birth of Saint Sava, the most significant Serbian holy ...