“We are Greeks because we got educated in Greece,” says Jonah (Lwanga), the Metropolitan of Kampala and All Uganda, the spiritual leader of more than 100.000 Ugandans who are Greek Orthodox Christians.

Greek Australians recently raised money to create a statue of George Treloar, the Australian man who helped thousands of Pontian Greeks when they were forced to leave their homelands in the Pontus region of the Black Sea in the early 1920s.