World Heritage partnerships for conservation Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites ...

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 ...

A rectangle and the word “Klosterkullen,” which translates to “monastery hill,” was drawn in an area that today is an empty field in Derome, according to a May 13 news release from the ...

Nearly 5,000 people are expected to attend the pilgrimage hosted by Saint Tikhon's Monastery in South Canaan Township near Waymart. They will honor the 100th anniversary of the repose of Saint ...

Some of the historic trees around Tucson’s Benedictine Monastery will live on despite plans to flip the iconic site into a luxury apartment complex. A private foundation has stepped up to help ...

FILE - Monks carry baskets of supplies to the Simonopetra, or Simonos Petra Monastery, home of the all-male autonomous community of Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, on the peninsula of Mount Athos in ...