-> ,validPeriod= 1 -> The Communication explains: "The meeting will take place in Cuba, where the Pope will stop on the way to Mexico and where the patriarch will be on an official visit." The meeting, during which it comes to a private conversation will end with the signing of a joint declaration. "This meeting of heads of the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church, prepared for a long time, will be the first in history and set an important milestone in relations between the two Churches" - reads the note. Then, in her: "The Holy See and the Moscow Patriarchate expressed the desire that it was also a sign of hope for all people of good will. They encourage all Christians to fervent prayer that God will bless this meeting to bring good fruit ". After reading this note at a press conference in the Vatican on the papal visit to Mexico from 12 to 18 February, spokesman for the Holy See, Father Federico Lombardi said that the conversation with Francis Cyril will last about 2 hours. During the exchange of gifts to Francis and Cyril will join Cuban leader Raul Castro. He took the pope during his visit to the island in September 2015. I had never happened to the Pope returned to a country after such a short break. There will be also a speech - gave the Vatican. Father Lombardi referring to the location of the meeting noted that it has a symbolic meaning for both sides, it is located on a kind of "crossroads" of today's world; in a well-known Russian Orthodox Church and the Holy See, after three visits popes - John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis. The joy of the announcement of the meeting - reported ks. Lombardi - expressed the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew, who has been a partner and interlocutor of the Vatican as a formal superior Orthodoxy. About the possibility of meeting the Pope and the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia said since the 90s, that is, from the pontificate of John Paul II and Patriarch Alexy. From the beginning, it was assumed that the first meeting occurs in a neutral place. Only then, as believed, it will be possible Pope's visit to Moscow. However, as repeatedly stressed commentators, for geopolitical reasons and historical, but also because of the nationality of John Paul II at his meeting with the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and on his trip to Russia was not a chance. With the election of Benedict XVI began the prospect seem more likely, also because he knows Cyril and met with him before he became head of the Russian Orthodox Church. 30 November 2014, on the way back from Istanbul, Francis asked about the possibility of a meeting with Cyril said: "I gave him already know and he also agrees as to whether that is the will to meet" . "I said I'll go wherever you want. You call me and I come. With his hand, it is the will. Both want to meet and move forward" - he said the pope, for whom ecumenism is one of the priorities. The appointment of the first meeting in Cuba is therefore the realization of these words. Francis will go there, where it will stay Cyril. Russian patriarch planned trip to the island just when the pope will be staying in Mexico. Attention is drawn to the absolute secrecy with which they prepared this historic meeting, although recently appeared media speculation that there may be such an event, as has been suggested, "the Caribbean." Italian media point out that the announcement of the meeting means that "the wall will collapse again." From the Vatican Sylwia Wysocka Subscribe to digital Electoral available through the internet, phone, tablet and eReader from 19.90 per month
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