Twenty-two Ukrainian veterans who survived injuries while fighting against Russia's invasion are healing spiritually at a ...

The Ukrainian soldiers arrived in Greece with marks of war - one with a head scar, another with both legs amputated above the ...

On a pilgrimage of Eastern Orthodox holy sites, far from the deadly conflict with Russia, fighters try to lift their spirits ...

Mount Athos in Greece is setting up limits on pilgrims in order to preserve its monastic life, after their number skyrocketed ...

The men, 22 in all, had taken a bus more than 1,000 km (620 miles) from the Ukrainian city of Lviv to a monastery built on a ...

A total of 22 Ukrainian soldiers have found refuge on Mount Athos. Seeking physical and mental peace, the soldiers set off by ...

Ukrainian soldiers, bearing physical and mental scars from the ongoing war, embarked on a healing pilgrimage to Mount Athos ...

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The holy peninsula of Mount Athos reaches 31 miles out into the Aegean Sea like an appendage struggling to dislocate ...

The Greek authorities point out that Mt. Athos is an autonomous region within Greece and removal of timber from the forests by monks resident in Mt. Athos is permitted under a law gazetted in 24 ...