The two religious leaders kissed each other three times on the cheek at José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba on Friday.
Source/Credit: The Huffington Post
By Carol Kuruvilla | February 12, 2015
For the first time in history, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church met with the head of the largest branch of Eastern Orthodoxy.
The encounter between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill, of the Russian Orthodox Church, was a symbolic step towards healing a nearly 1,000-year-old schism within Christianity -- but the full effects that this meeting will have on the relations between the two churches remain to be seen.
The two religious leaders kissed each other three times on the cheek at José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba on Friday.
"Finally!" Francis exclaimed as they embraced, the AP reported. "We are brothers."
Kirill told the pope through an interpreter: "Now things are easier."
Their private meeting lasted for three hours. Afterwards, Francis and Kirill signed a 30-point joint statement in Russian and Italian. The statement emphasized their concern for the plight of Christians in the Middle East and North Africa, and called on political leaders to take action.
"Entire families of our brothers and sisters in Christ are being exterminated, entire villages and cities," the declaration said.
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