Pope says Vatican involved in secret Ukraine peace mission
Aboard the papal planeReuters The Vatican is involved in a peace mission to try to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Pope Francis said on Sunday, declining to give further details. “I am willing to do everything that has to be done. There is a mission in course now but it is not yet […]
Pope, meeting Ukrainian refugees, says better future possible
Budapest, HungaryReuters Pope Francis on Saturday met Ukrainians who fled the war on Hungary’s eastern border, telling the refugees that a different future is possible. Francis met with about 600 refugees, poor and homeless people in a visit to St Elizabeth’s Church in Budapest on the second day of his visit, which began on Friday […]
Russian Orthodox Church sends its second most powerful figure on lower-ranking overseas posting
London, UKReuters Russia’s Orthodox Church has ousted its second most powerful bishop from his role in charge of foreign relations and sent him to Budapest, an abrupt decision indicating discord at the top of the Moscow Patriarchate over the war in Ukraine. The Holy Synod, which met at the white-walled 13th century Danilovsky Monastery in […]
Plans move forward for 2022 Pope, Russian Patriarch meeting
Rome, ItalyAP Plans are progressing for a possible meeting next year between Pope Francis and the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church following their historic encounter in Havana in 2016, a top Russian Orthodox official said Wednesday. Metropolitan Hilarion, foreign relations chief of the Russian Orthodox Church, met for about an hour with Francis on […]