A winding four-hour drive from Athens, it enjoys near total silence, periodically broken by church bells and howling dogs. Elderly residents measure the village’s chances of survival by the ...

Listen to the report's contributors share their experiences of rural ministry. GS Misc 1092 Released for Mission - growing the rural church (2.76 MB) Released for Mission: Growing the Rural Church (GS ...

A winding four-hour drive from Athens, it enjoys near total silence, periodically broken by church bells and howling dogs. Elderly residents measure the ... birth rates and rural depopulation ...

But it should be more. Because nothing tells the story of a village like its church. These often ancient buildings go far beyond worship. They are keepers of folklore, galleries of master ...

FOURNA, Greece (AP) — Fourna, home to 180 people and hidden in the fir-tree covered mountains of central Greece, is a vanishing village that is determined to keep its place on the map.