The Friends of Mount Athos
News and Announcements About Mount Athos

Index of News Reports


© 2005 The Friends of Mt Athos

This page was initiated on the occasion of the Chilandar fire to be a repository of news and reportage (listed by date) that have been posted by the Friends of Mount Athos. News items recorded here are drawn from the Press as well as from our members. Old news items remain here as an archive. This page does not make any attempt at comprehensive coverage of news related to Mount Athos, but depends on the reading and reports by members of the Friends of Mount Athos and other interested persons.

Readers are encouraged to suggest or post a news item for this page.

News Reports for 2004-2007

May 17, 2007 The Kathimerini English Edition Zealots try to enter Mt. Athos
 
Aug 14, 2006 Esphigmenou Monastery (http://www.esphigmenou.com/ Greek Government to Try Monks for Heresy
 
Oct 29, 2005 The Kathimerini English Edition, "News in Brief" Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica to visit Mount Athos
 
Apr 29, 2005 The Kathimerini English Edition Fishermen angling for access to monks' fish
 
Apr 15, 2005 The Kathimerini English Edition In Brief: Rebel Monks
 
Apr 14, 2005 The Missourian Edition Faces: Scott Cairns
 
Mar 21, 2005 Kathimerini English Edition Court backs rebel monks' ouster
 
Feb 24, 2005 Russian Orthodox Church Church News (Online Edition) Kyrill Metrop. of Smolensk and Kalliningrad Meeting with Iviron Hegumen Vasili
 
Feb 9, 2005 The Daily Iowan Online Edition Beth Herzinger, Where the temporal and the eternal intersectFeature article on FoMA Member, Christopher Merrill, winner of the 2005 Kostas Kyriazis Award, Greece's most prestigious journalism award, for his recent book, Things of the Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain
 
Feb 4, 2005 Kathimerini English Edition Alexandra Koroxenidis, Unusual look across time and cultures ‘Ptychoseis’ exhibition folded life, art and fashion into one
 
Jan 25, 2005 Bloomberg News A. Craig Copetas, `Davos Men' Go to Holy Mountain to Ponder Globe, Confess Sins
 
Nov 14-16 multuple reports Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov's Zographou Pilgrimage
 
Nov 6 Kathimerini English Edition The amazing pilgrimage of Russian businessman-turned-monk, Athanassios
 
Oct 28 AsiaNews.it - Italy Bernardo Cervellera, A maimed Europe signs its constitution
 
Oct 26 CredoRU Plenipotentiary Kirienko and Culture Minister Sokolov Make Pilgrimage to Athos
 
October 1 Today's Home News Havana-Thessaloniki twinning brings noted Cuban scholar Leal to Greece
 
September 13 Kathimerini English Edition Helicopter with 17 on board crashes in northern Aegean
 
September 4 multiple reports Russian President Vladimir Putin's planned trip to the Holy Mountain on the weekend of Sept 4, 2004.
 
September 1 The Statesman The Ethos of Athos
 
March 4 multiple reports Chilandar Fire March 2004
 

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