Pope and Patriarch: A Meeting that makes history

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Pope and Patriarch: A Meeting that makes history

For the first time in the history of the Church have a Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and a Russian Orthodox Patriarch met. A nearly thousand-year ice age between the two churches should, therefore, be terminated.

For their historic Meeting, Pope Francis and Patriarch Kyrill I. a neutral location, far away from their places of Rome and Moscow: the airport of Havana. Topics of their conversation, for the two hours scheduled, are likely the major Weltfragen such as peace, justice and environmental protection, but also the desperate situation of the Christians in the Middle East. In connection both want a joint Declaration signed in which the persecution of Christians around the world condemn.

After nearly 1000 years: Meet with scope

Francis has a Meeting with the Moscow Patriarch in his own words eagerly wish for. “It is a challenging journey, dense, but hot longing for,” said the Pope on the flight from Rome to Havana, his stopover in the direction of Mexico. His “brother Cyril” have the Meeting also longed for how he. Patriarch Kyrill is already in the socialist Karbiksstaat. His visit to Cuba was already longer planned.

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Tensions between Rome and Moscow had a first Meeting between leaders of the two largest Christian denominations since the division in front of almost a thousand years up to now prevented. The Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Church since 1054 separate ways. In the theological and political dispute involves, among other things, to the Autoritätsanspruch of the Pope. But also in the decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Patriarchate on the demarcation. The establishment of four Catholic dioceses in Russia is perceived in Moscow as an adversary, and threw Rome, Orthodox faithful to poach.

Francis made already in 2014 it clear that he is the relations to a new level wants, when he announced that he would be the Moscow Patriarch meeting, “wherever” this wool. Cyril is regarded as the head of the Church with the will to Ecumenism. His Meeting with the Pope is also in the interest of the Kremlin. President Vladimir Putin is confident that Cyril as his “Ambassador” is perceived. According to the Constitution Russia is a secular state, but, in fact, stand the Patriarch, and Putin is close.

Five Days In Mexico

Havana flies the Pope to Mexico. At the first visit of the 79-year-old Argentiniers in the Latin American state are the Drogengewalt and the Migration is in the focus. In the most populous country in the Spanish-speaking world, visited Francis five symbolic places, including the troubled province of Chiapas, and the border city of Ciudad Juarez, where he directly on the metal fence to the U.S., a fair celebrating.

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