Russia’s patriarch in ‘most important visit to Holy Land’

“In religious terms, it is the most important visit since Pope Benedict XVI” in 2009, Israel foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said about the first trip of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill. The head of Russia’s powerful Orthodox Church will visit key Christian sites in Israel and the Palestinian territories from November 9-14, as well as the Yad Vashem memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Jerusalem. The primate is expected to tour Christian landmarks in Jerusalem, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem and in the Israeli towns of Nazareth and Tiberias. The Russian Orthodox Church is the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches and has around 150 million followers worldwide.


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