Postcards: Greek monastery manuscripts tell new story of Ottoman rule
COSTAS KANTOURIS, of Associated Press, reports from Mount Athos in Greece…
Significant Sights: Splendid Byzantine churches head Thessaloniki’s holy sites
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Greece’s Mount Athos elders trust God and science to protect them from COVID
Mount Athos, GreeceReuters In the chapel of a monastery on Greece’s Mount Athos, Father Makarios read the Gospel while conducting a liturgy as he waited for his anti-coronavirus vaccination. He knows when to separate religion from science, he says. Father Makarios, 70, who was ill from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) last summer, leads the orthros […]