Mount Athos

Mt. Athos Leaders Talk Taxes With Samaras

April 19, 2013 News

Margarita Papantoniou - 18/4/13 The administration of the Holy Mount met Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in the Maximos Mansion on April 17 to go over financial matters and taxes concerning the famed Mt. Athos. According to the statement of the Deputy Foreign Minister Constantine Tsiaras who attended the meeting, the dominant theme was the 100-years celebration [...]

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Greek Monasteries Abound in History, Beauty

March 6, 2013 Featured News

Stella Tsolakidou - 5/3/13 Religious tourism is one of the oldest forms of travelling and Greece has inspired travellers, whether for religious purposes or mere self-exploring, throughout the years with its rich tradition in religious sites. From the well-preserved Byzantine era churches to the countless monasteries and metochia, the country is vast of sacred places dedicated [...]

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Proposal to Exhibit Mount Athos Treasures

March 6, 2013 Featured News

  Christina Flora 5/3/13 The state of Victoria and Greece are going to discuss on the update of the memorandum signed in the early 90′s about teaching Greek in public schools. The proposal was made by the Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship, Nikos Kotsiras, in a meeting with the Deputy Foreign Minister for Hellenism [...]

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Father Maximos of Mount Athos to lead 2013 Archon Lenten Retreat, April 19-20

February 1, 2013 News

New York, NY 1/31/2013 With the blessings of Archbishop Demetrios of America, Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, it is with great joy that we invite you and your families to attend the Tenth Annual National Archon Lenten Retreat on April 19 and 20 under the chairmanship of Archon Hieromnimon Peter Skeadas. With the gracious invitation [...]

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A Visit to the Mount Athos of America

January 10, 2013 Featured News

Thom Nickels – 10/1/13 Philadelphia-based author/journalist It’s a little bit after one in the afternoon and Father Sergius (Bowyer), the Abbott of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk monastery in South Canaan, Pa., is chatting with a handful of monks. The small group is standing in the garden-grotto area just outside the monastery dinning room. The mood [...]

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Patriarch Kirill to make a pilgrimage to Mount Athos and visit Estonia

December 30, 2012 Featured News

Moscow, December 29, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia is to visit Greece, Mount Athos and the Baltic States next year. “Early in June the Patriarch plans to visit Greece. Visiting the Greek Orthodox Church he will return the Archbishop Ieronymos’ of Athens and All Greece visit to Russia in 2012. The [...]

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Greeks Seek Strength in the Powers of Revered Monk Elder Paisios to Predict Events

December 11, 2012 Featured News

GORDON FAIRCLOUGH 11/12/12 SOUROTI, Greece—Legend has it that nearly three decades ago, a bearded Orthodox Christian mystic visiting here made an unsettling prediction: Greece in the future would experience a “great disruption and confusion,” followed by hunger and political turmoil. Believers say this grim vision of Elder Paisios, an ascetic monk who died in 1994, [...]

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Ancient Art Comes To Syracuse

November 23, 2012 Featured News

Stacey Page - 22/11/2012 When local artist Brian Whirledge reached a plateau in his craft, he sought a teacher who could instruct him further. Unfortunately, teachers of Byzantine art and music are few and far between, and hundreds of miles from his home in Syracuse.  But when this art teacher learned of the creativity grants for [...]

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Greeks Seek Solace in Mt. Athos Monasteries

October 15, 2012 Featured News

Mount Athos, a self-governed peninsula in northeastern Greece, has been attracting pilgrims to its Orthodox monasteries for centuries. But the debt crisis has led to a sharp rise in the number of guests seeking calm and solace there. Women still aren’t welcome, though. By Daniel Steinvorth 12/10/2012 Mornings on the sacred mountain begin with loud [...]

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You are heroes and we are proud of you!

August 18, 2012 News

17/8/2012 Serbian Church Serbian Prime Minister Mr. Ivica Dacic and His Grace Bishop Andrej of Remesiana, vicar of Serbian Patriarch, thanked yesterday the firemen from Serbia, who participated in extingushing the fire on the Mount Athos near the Hilandar monastery. The leader of the firemen squad Goran Nikolić said that his men with his Greek [...]

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Fire extinguished – rain fell after the procession and the moleben

August 16, 2012 Featured News

LATEST NEWS: Sunday, August 12, 2012 (8 a.m.) – THE FIRE ON MOUNT ATHOS PUT OUT. THE HILANDAR MONASTERY SAVED. Last night at 10.48 p.m. of local time on Mount Athos a heavy rain began. According to reports of eyewitnesses, a real downpour happened. The Most Holy Theotokos, the Comforter of sadness, not burned …

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Reaching peak perfection on a holiday with monks on Greece’s man-only Mount Athos

August 10, 2012 News

By Eddie Wrenn 10/8/2012 As I arrive on sunny Mount Athos and step onto dry land from our boat, it feels like a blow for feminism. This self-governed state is populated almost entirely by monks – and women are not allowed. According to the Greek Orthodox monks, it has been this way for some 2000 [...]

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Forest fire near Greek Orthodox monastery spreads

August 10, 2012 News

FOCUS News Agency 9/8/2012 Thessaloniki. Authorities ordered the evacuation Thursday of young families and the elderly as a wildfire near Greece’s monastic community of Mount Athos spread towards a nearby town, firefighters said, cited by AFP. The mayor of the city of Ouranoupolis “has given the order to families with children and elderly people to [...]

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Filat, Shevchuk to Mount Athos to pray at old monasteries

July 19, 2012 News

Chisinau, July 16, Interfax – Moldovan Prime Minister Vladimir Filat and Transdniestrian President Yevgeny Shevchuk flew on a private jet to Greece to visit Mount Athos. The politicians flew out to Thessaloniki on early Sunday morning accompanied by Metropolitan of Chisinau and All Moldavia Vladimir, sources from the Chisinau Airport told Interfax. “The Moldovan and [...]

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Greek orthodox head defends Church over tax scandals

July 16, 2012 Featured News

By Nikolaj Nielsen 14/7/2012 BRUSSELS – Taxes in Greece continue to slip through state scrutiny as some corporations, wealthy Greek-ship owning families, and the Greek Orthodox Church are either exempt or use loopholes to hide millions of euros. In the first five months of 2012, the Greek ministry of finance registered a €300 million shortfall [...]

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For men only: A pilgrimage to Mount Athos in Greece

May 26, 2012 Featured News

26/5/2012 WILLIAM COOK On a secluded peninsula in north-east Greece lies an enclave that’s way off the tourist map, especially for women. William Cook gains access to the monastic republic of Mount Athos. All the Greeks I met on my way to Mount Athos appeared preoccupied by the euro crisis. But as we approached the [...]

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5.0 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Mount Athos

March 11, 2012 News

Fani Toli 4/3/2012 An earthquake of magnitude 5.0 on the Richter scale occurred on Mount Athos in Chalkidiki at 05.30 on Sunday morning, 30 ​​km west of Mount Athos. It has been confirmed that no damage or injuries had been reported, while Professor of Geology at the University of Athens, Efthymios Lekkas, gave an interview [...]

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My Trek to Mount Athos

February 2, 2012 Featured News

Rev. Malcolm BoydWriter-in-residence, Episcopal diocese of LA 2/2/2012 When TV’s “60 Minutes” visited the legendary Greek monastic island Mount Athos the other night I watched with rapt interest because I found myself so personally involved. Fifty-five years ago as a young Episcopalian deacon I spent an unforgettable month on the island prior to my ordination [...]

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ST. SAVA

January 28, 2012 Featured News

27/1/2012 On January 27, the Serbian Orthodox Church celebrates the Day of St. Sava, the first Serbian Archbishop. Wherever they live, the Serbs spend this whole week organizing events and festive gatherings to celebrate this extraordinary man who made his mark on history and culture of the Serbian people and paved the way for future [...]

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Greek church protests pre-trial detention of Abbot Efraim

January 13, 2012 News

ATHENS,(RIA Novosti) 12/1/2012 The autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece has called for the release of Abbot Efraim, the head of the Vatopedi Monastery in Mount Athos, who is currently under arrest on real estate fraud charges, the church’s Holy Synod said on Thursday. “Our church respects rulings by justice and would not like to interfere [...]

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Εcumenical Patriarchate Denounces Russian Interference in the Ephraim Case

January 11, 2012 Featured News

By Stella Tsolakidou 11/1/2012 Τhe Ecumenical Patriarchate denounced the interference of the Russian Orthodox Church in the case of Abbot Ephraim of Vatopedi, after the Holy Synod concluded on Tuesday. In its official announcement, the Patriarchate points out that Mount Athos lies within the jurisdiction and borders of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and though it may [...]

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The Belt of the Mother of God arrives in Moscow

November 19, 2011 News

© PhotoПравославие и мир Milena Faustova 18/11/2011 One of the most-revered Christian shrines, the Belt of the Most Holy Mother of God, is arriving in Moscow on Saturday as part of a month-long tour across fourteen Russian cities. The Belt, which was transported from the Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos, has incited great interest among [...]

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State Historical Museum of Moscow Hosts Mount Athos Photo Exhibit

November 11, 2011 News

Stella Tsolakidou 10/11/2011 The new exhibition hall of the State Historical Museum in Moscow hosts an exhibition of 240 photographs from Mount Athos taken from the archive of the Simonapetra Monastery. In cooperation with the Greek Monastery, the Russian Geographical Society and the Narodnoye Predpriyatie Foundation have organized this exhibition presenting to the Russian public [...]

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Yanukovych meets with Ecumenical Patriarch on Mount Athos, says source

October 8, 2011 News

08.10.2011 Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych during his state visit to Greece made a private visit to Mount Athos, where he met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, a source in diplomatic circles told Interfax-Ukraine. The source said that the Ukrainian president visited Mount Athos on Friday, October 7, after attending a business forum in Thessaloniki. He [...]

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Orthodox church appears to be exempt from Austerity Measures

October 4, 2011 News

Alain Salles Guardian Weekly 4/10/2011 Property tax levied across Greece will not apply to the church, whose financial status is coming under closer scrutiny as debt crisis continues. The Greek church and its monasteries will not have to pay the deeply unpopular property tax that the government introduced in September in an effort to fulfil [...]

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