"60 Minutes" producer Michael Karzis is the perfect tour guide to take you behind the scenes on the show's Mt. Athos story. Karzis is the son of Greek immigrants and he speaks Greek. Those things ...

The skulls, lined up five deep on wooden shelves, date back hundreds of years, with the names of the more recently deceased scratched onto their foreheads — Monk Theolothelis, 91, 26-6-1986, or Monk ...

An entire section of the visitors’ guide to the Holy Mountain of Athos is devoted to the subject of photography, and to summarize the gist of it – there are no pictures allowed. We learned about this ...

Schema-Archimandrite Jeremiah (Alekhin), Abbot of the Russian St. Panteleimon’s Monastery on Mt. Athos, has made a visit to the most ancient Russian Athonite monastery—Xylourgou, or the Holy Dormition ...

ATHENS, May 28. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, the second day of his visit to Greece, will visit Mount Athos to attend ceremonies marking 1000 years of Russian monasticism there ...

We are two brothers from Melbourne, Greeks of this generation, one eighteen and one seventeen, visiting Mount Athos for the ...

So how does an unbeliever like me end up in a place that, according to my spiritual cohabitants for seven nights, lies closest to God? Perhaps because there must be a place for middle-aged Australian ...

On July 27-28, the Day of Holy Prince Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles, the Synaxis of All Holy Russian Sovereigns was solemnly celebrated at St. Panteleimon’s Russian Monastery on Mt. Athos, reports ...

Dina Zingaro is a 60 Minutes associate producer and co-producer of "The Resurrection of St. Nicholas." The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in New York City is the focus of a 60 Minutes story on ...

You know you’ve arrived somewhere special when you’re greeted by hundreds of yellow butterflies fluttering in the breeze. We woke to this spectacle each morning during our stay at Eagles Palace Villas ...

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 ...

It was while visiting Mount Athos, more than a quarter of a century ago, that I first heard the Soviet Union would collapse—and would do so in my lifetime. There, in northeastern Greece one ...