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Title: Report: Patriarch Kirill will not meet Pope Francis in Kazakhstan
Originally reported on www.catholicnewsagency.com by CNA Staff
Classification: IPTC: 01026002 • IAB-QAG: IAB12-1
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 25, 2022 / 05:37 am
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow will not attend an interreligious summit in Kazakhstan in September, where it was hoped he would meet with Pope Francis to discuss a peaceful resolution to the six-month-long war in Ukraine.
The pope will travel to the Central Asian nation for the VII Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in the city of Nur-Sultan on Sept. 13-15.
The Russian Orthodox Church will send a delegation to the congress, but Kirill will not go, Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, the head of the Russian Church’s Department for External Church Relations, told RIA-Novosti.
There had been speculation that the two religious leaders — who met in Havana, Cuba, in 2016 — might meet in person, possibly in Jerusalem, to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which Kirill has publicly supported.
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