“Despite the absence of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, whom the pope was planning to meet, Francis is expected to deliver a message of peace in the strategically located country”
“he will soon be meeting with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow. It will be only the 2nd time since the creation of the Moscow Patriarchate in the 15th century that the highest religious authorities of Roman Catholicism and Russian Orthodoxy will meet. The 1st occasion was the historic 2016 meeting”
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The pope goes to Kazakhstan, a strategic periphery
Francis and Kirill: a summit on the horizon
