Georgia
New allegations against Georgian Orthodox Church as archbishop accused of sexual assault
New allegations of sexual misconduct have emerged against the clergy of the Georgian Orthodox Church. On Tuesday, Dusheti Archbishop Zosime Shioshvili was accused of sexually assaulting a male student at the Tbilisi Theological Academy in the 1980s, when he was rector of the institution. The allegations come scarcely a week after accusations of homosexuality and molestation of ‘young men/boys’ were levelled against the head of the Church, Patriarch Ilia II. The allegations against Shioshv
