Starting well before dawn in a tiny, dark chapel, the Orthodox Christian monk prays to the icon of the Virgin Mary that gives its name to the whitewashed complex perched between sky and sea ...

But a few Orthodox Christian ... to place next to my father. Because I love him deeply,” Nikolaos Economides said. Days of work and prayer starting well before dawn Monks' days tend to be ...

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at the Panagia Hozoviotissa Monastery ...

But a few Orthodox Christian monks remain icons of local ... “I want a photograph of Father Spyridon to place next to my ...