Police in Georgia have detained a high-profile priest who is suspected of plotting ... to poison Patriarch Ilia, head of the Georgian Orthodox Church. Irakli Shotadze, chief prosecutor in the ...

The arrest of a senior Georgian Orthodox priest accused of plotting to poison an unnamed high level church official has roiled the country, where the church plays an outsized role in politics and ...

One priest, Archbishop Nikoloz Pachuashvili ... is because I uncovered the sin of sodomy and pederasty in the Georgian Orthodox Church.” “The people have a patriarch, possessed by the sin ...

It uses the law on military service, which states that priests and those studying ... Meanwhile, the Georgian Orthodox Church is taking steps to combat the rise of the Church of Biblical Freedom.

Georgian Orthodox priests. The episode raised issues about human rights in a religiously conservative country, as well as questions about the balance of power between church and state. The ...