... that he would like to become the new Pope. The latest eccentric move by the 47
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US President once again highlights the growing role of religion in global politics at the global level, including in the West. The pontificate of the recently deceased Pope Francis (2013–2025) has a significant political dimension, its end providing grounds for assessing the changing nature of interactions between key actors in world politics.
Pope Francis was the first in many formal ways: the first pontiff from ...
... Liddo:
The President and the Pope: an
Unconventional Allianceс
In spite of the “unprecedented renewal of the Christian faith in Russia, as well as in many other countries of Eastern Europe,” which was noted in the Joint Declaration of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill, Orthodox Christianity is facing the same challenges.
In Russia
, for example, 72 per cent of the adult population consider themselves Orthodox Christians; however, only 56 per cent believe in God, 32 per cent believe in the afterlife, and a mere 7 per cent attend ...
A landmark meeting between Patriarch Kirill and Pope Francis took place at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana on February 12, 2016. A meeting of this kind has been unprecedented ... ... and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). Growing differences in doctrinal theology and policies led to the split in once united Christianity in the Great Schism of 1054 and to establishing its Eastern and Western branches. The Russian Orthodox Church became ...
