The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians has told migrants in a detention center on the Greek island of Lesvos that the world will be judged by how it has treated them.

Reporting on the visit by the Ecumenical Patriarch to Germany, Deutsche Welle mentions that the issue of Hagia Sophia being turned into a Mosque outraged the German chancellor.

Prime minister Antonis Samaras met, this afternoon, with his Israeli counterpart Banjamin Netanyuahu in Jerusalem in the presence of foreign minister Evangelos Venizelos.