About Greece

The majority of Greeks self-identify as Orthodox Christians. However, this title is not based on a personal relationship with God or church attendance but part of their identity as being Greek. You can trace thousands of years of church history and the Greek Orthodox church to find how religion preserved the greek language, culture and existence from its inception and through the 400+ years of Ottoman occupation and muslim rule.

For the average modern Greek, it doesn't matter if he or she believes in God or not, it is very unlikely that they would deny their Christian Religion. In addition, many Greek communities have been fixated on magic and superstition for many centuries and often people go to church and be part of various Greek orthodox rituals in order to keep grudges away (the evil eye).

Despite these historic realities, the emerging generation of Greeks are very apathetic towards religion. In addition to secularisation, the Greek orthodox church has become more politicised and criticised for its involvement in real estate, the embezzlement of money and moral scandal which has kept many away from the church.

Agape/Αγάπη Greece has been active on university campuses across Greece for over 30 years with active national staff. We want to help the young Greek generation and especially the students in Greece to trust in the Lord and bring the Gospel to them in a trusted and inspiring way. We seek to build relational connections with students in order to engage in a spiritual conversations. We have immense opportunities to impact the lives of students and raise global future leaders with the love of Jesus. We want students in Greece to be aware of the impact that Greek Christians have had on what became the Religion with the most followers in the world and to be aware of our heritage, to practice and to nourish it.

We have to active national staff in the country and are currently receiving partnerships in Athens and Thessaloniki. In Athens alone there are over 260,000 students. In, Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece has over 100,000 students.