Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill called in a historic meeting Friday, February 12. Their meeting was driven by rising violence in recent years in the Middle East, where Christian communities have suffered violence at the hands of extremists.
It was the first meeting between the heads of the Eastern and Western churches since the great schism of 1054 when the churches split apart, with the Eastern church rejecting the authority of Rome.
Read Agence France-Presse’s dispatch from Havana.
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