Why are the Patriarch and Pope coming together on Levant crisis now? (Theodore Karasik, Al Arabiya)

The historical meeting in Cuba between the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill and Pope Francis is certainly timely in the context of the Levantine affairs. With a so-called ceasefire pending in Syria on March 1 and the possible entry of more actors into the country’s battlespace, the holy meeting, advertised as the first in almost 1000 years (1054-2016), is certainly a millennial event with geopolitical implications.

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