Christian Exodus From the Middle East a ‘Tragedy of Global Dimension’
SputnikNews.com
06.02.2016
The upcoming meeting between Russia’s Orthodox Christian Patriarch Kirill and Pope Francis was prompted, among other things, by the rising threat of religious extremism in the Middle East and the persecution of local Christians by Islamic radicals, a senior Orthodox cleric said in Moscow on Friday.
“There are things Orthodox and Catholic Christians should tackle together as they concern both our Churches, above all the persecution of Christians in the Middle East, their humiliation and other things that beg for our concerted response,” Vakhtang Kipshidze, the Russian Orthodox Church’s chief spokesman, said commenting on the forthcoming meeting between Pope Benedict and Patriarch Kirill.
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