Mount Athos is home to twenty monasteries where only monks are allowed to live and only males are allowed to visit, women are banned.

A young transgender man is suing an Orthodox monk from Greece's monastic community of Mount Athos (Agion Oros).

Portaïtissa, Our Lady of the Gate. It is located at the monastery of Iviron. Legend tells that the icon escaped iconoclasm during the reign of Theophilos (829-842) and traveled of its own power to ...

A significant resolution included the approval of an annual fundraiser for the holy monastery of Saint Catherine of Theovadistos Mount Sinai. The collection will take place in all churches in ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday renaming Denali—the highest peak in North America—to Mount McKinley, the Alaska mountain’s name prior to 2015, a move he has suggested ...

Mount Ibu, on the remote island of Halmahera in North Maluku province, sent a column of smoke up to four kilometers (2.5 miles) into the sky in an eruption Wednesday. Indonesian officials raised ...

Trump, who took office for a second time Monday, said he planned to "restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs.

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Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's Reviews team since 2000. He covers the gamut of gadgets and is a notable reviewer of mobile accessories and portable audio ...

Want to make the most of your telescope? You need a mount to match. We have rounded up the best telescope mounts in time for February's Venus and moon convergence. The right telescope mount can ...

The eruption of Mount Kilauea began on 23 December and has paused periodically since, but restarted on 16 January. This stream has now ended ...