内容摘要：A storm forms over abandoned houses on the Navajo Nation, on the outskirts of Tuba City, Ariz., Oct. 18, 2024.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A storm forms over abandoned houses on the Navajo Nation, on the outskirts of Tuba City, Ariz., Oct. 18, 2024.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

The Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea is illuminated by the sun during a cloudy day, in Amorgos island, Greece, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)The Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea is illuminated by the sun during a cloudy day, in Amorgos island, Greece, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos conducts the Divine Liturgy in the chapel of Panagia Evangelistria, in Amorgos island, Greece, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos conducts the Divine Liturgy in the chapel of Panagia Evangelistria, in Amorgos island, Greece, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)The faithful stand outside the chapel of Panagia Evangelistria, in Amorgos island, Greece, as Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos conducts the Divine Liturgy, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

The faithful stand outside the chapel of Panagia Evangelistria, in Amorgos island, Greece, as Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos conducts the Divine Liturgy, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)Their journey often starts with an eight-hour ferry ride from the mainland and always ends with a steep, shadowless climb up a stony path to the monastery.

“The Virgin knows the method by which she will transmit her grace to each person – each one, as a brother and as an image of God,” Father Spyridon told The Associated Press.

Even though Greece is rapidly secularizing like the rest of Europe, the church still plays a crucial role in small, tight-knit communities like Amorgos, with 2,000 inhabitants in its small villages.Everything in this new home is unsettling, even undignified. “We have no toilets,” Hassan said, and described having to go inside the hut while others collected his feces.

“Today, at least we have this,” Issack said, sitting on a foam mattress in a living space he could almost span by reaching out both hands.A loaded donkey cart arrived nearby, full of boys, the oldest with the reins. Their mothers walked beside it, carrying babies. As newcomers, they’ll sleep on the ground until they, too, receive a square drawn in the dust.

They were among 77 households who arrived at the camp on a single day.Somalis who have been displaced settle at a camp on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)