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 ...

The couple hiked up to the spectacular seventh-century Buddhist monastery, perched on the edge of a cliff 12,000 feet (3,636 metres) high in the Himalayas and known as the "Tigers' Nest".

For sweeping views of the ocean and prime photo ops, travelers recommend visiting the Paleokastritsa Monastery. Located on a remote cliff peninsula in the village of Paleokastritsa, the Byzantine ...

Hermitage meditation caves dot the cliff walls all around the monastery complex and up and down the valley. Mani walls and stones, carved with sacred syllables and prayers, line the paths.

The men, 22 in all, had taken a bus more than 1,000 kilometers from the Ukrainian city of Lviv to a monastery built on a cliff on the mountainous Athos peninsula in northern Greece, where they ...

In the case of the Convento, the specialness is right there in the history of the building, a former Capuchin monastery built in the 13th century on the site of a cave which had for centuries been a ...