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Pope Francis and the Patriarch Kirill meet at Jose Marti international airport, in Havana, Cuba, Feb. 12, 2016. The two met in Cuba in a major advance towards healing a 1,000-year-old rift between Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians. Lengthy Lead-Up to the Meeting. |
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HAVANA (AP) — With a hug and an exclamation of "Finally!" Pope Francis met Friday with Patriarch Kirill in the first ever meeting between a pontiff and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, a historic development in the 1,000-year schism that has divided Christianity. |
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Pope Francis met today with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Havana, bringing the heads of the Russian and Catholic churches together for the first time since Christianity split. Patriarch Kirill was the first of the two leaders to arrive in Lengthy Lead-Up to the MeetingThe meeting is.... |
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HAVANA — Pope Francis landed in Cuba Friday for the first-ever papal meeting with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, a historic development in the 1,000-year schism within Christianity. The pope’s jetliner set down at Havana’s Jose Marti International Airport, where he’s scheduled to have a.... |
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The Russian church has long sought greater influence over the Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul. "This isn't benevolence. It's not a newfound desire for Christian unity," said George Demacopoulos, the Greek-Orthodox chairman of Orthodox Christian studies at Fordham University in New York. |
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HAVANA (AP) — Pope Francis met Friday with Patriarch Kirill in the first-ever papal meeting with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, an historic development in the 1,000-year schism that divided Christianity that may, however, be more about Russia asserting itself than any new ecumenical progress. |
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HAVANA — Pope Francis met Friday with Patriarch Kirill in the first-ever papal meeting with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, an historic development in the 1,000-year schism that divided Christianity that may, however, be more about Russia asserting itself than any new ecumenical progress. |
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Cupido is coming to town once again! And for his arrival all around the world, every Feb. 14, restaurants make special menus, red candies and heart-shaped.... |
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“Finally!” Francis exclaimed as he embraced Kirill in the small, wood-paneled VIP room of Havana’s airport, where the three-hour encounter was taking place. “We are brothers.” They kissed one another three times on the cheek, and Kirill told the pope through an interpreter: “Now things are easier. |
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The meeting and signing of a joint declaration was decades in the making and cemented Francis' reputation as a risk-taking statesman who values dialogue, bridge-building and rapprochement at almost any cost. Indeed, while the meeting with Kirill has been hailed by many as an important ecumenical.... |
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While the meeting Havana has been hailed in some Catholic circles as an important ecumenical breakthrough, Francis has also come under criticism for essentially allowing himself to be used by a Russia eager to assert itself among Orthodox Christians and on the world stage at a time when the country is increasingly isolated from the West. |
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