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ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Havana - 12 February 2016
1. Various of meeting between Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill and Pope Francis
POOL
ARCHIVE: Havana - 14 February 2016
2. Various of Kirill officiating Mass
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Havana - 14 February 2016
3. Various of Kirill and then Cuban President Raul Castro walking towards plane
4. Various of of Kirill blessing and saying goodbye to Castro and delegation
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Sao Paulo - 21 February 2016
5. Various of Kirill celebrating Mass
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Paris - 5 December 2016
6. French President Francois Hollande and Kirill outside Elysee Palace, shaking hands, Kirill entering car
STORYLINE
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has canceled his planned attendance at an interfaith meeting in Kazakhstan next month where he was expected to meet with Pope Francis, a top Orthodox official said, in a sign of further deterioration in relations over Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, head of foreign relations for the Moscow Patriarchate, was quoted by the Ria Novosti news agency as saying that Patriarch Kirill would not be attending the Sept. 13-15 meeting and that therefore any meeting with Francis was off.
Kirill has justified the invasion of Ukraine on spiritual and ideological grounds, calling it a “metaphysical” battle with the West.
He has blessed Russian soldiers going into battle and invoked the idea that Russians and Ukrainians are one people.
Francis had confirmed as recently as last month that he would meet with Kirill at the Kazakh meeting in what would have been the second-ever encounter between a pope and a Russian patriarch.
The first was in 2016 and their second had been planned for June but was postponed over the diplomatic fallout of the war.
Francis has denounced the war in Ukraine but has tried to keep a door open to dialogue with Moscow, refraining from condemning Russia, President Vladimir Putin or Kirill by name.
His balanced approach has angered Kyiv, which this week condemned his comments lamenting that innocents on both sides were paying the price of war.
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