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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Saint Athanasius had Trebizond for his homeland. He first entered the monastic life on the mountain called Kymaeos or Kyminas, which is in Mysia of Bithynia, then he went to Mount Athos and founded a ...

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

STORY: A group of Ukrainian soldiers arrived in Greece in late November with marks of war - one with a head scar, others with amputated limbs, some with invisible mental wounds.They travelled to a ...