Russian Orthodox Patriarch En Route to Cuba for Historic Meeting

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has left Moscow on a trip to Cuba in which he will both make a state visit to the Cuban President, Raul Castro, and hold a historic meeting with the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis. Kirill left Moscow on Thursday, ahead of Friday's meeting at Havana's José  Martí International airport with Pope Francis. The meeting is the first of its kind, an effort to heal the 1,000-year-old schism that...

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