Orthodox Patriarch Kirill and Catholic Pope Francis held an historic meeting in Cuba that relaxed some of the tensions from their thousand-year split and brought them together in speaking out against the persecution of Christians all across the world.
One of the lesser discussed consequences that the wars in the Mideast have caused is the genocide and religious cleansing of the Christian community, especially in the past couple of years at the hands of Daesh and other terrorist groups. This endangered minority is now on the verge of confessional extinction in parts of Iraq and Syria, with the latter having earlier been the most secular state in the entire Mideast.
The unprecedented anti-Christian crusade has miraculously brought together the heads of the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches, and the two religious leaders agreed to put aside their canonical differences in order to urgently assist their victimized communities.
Boris Volkhonsky, Head of the Asian Section at the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (studio guest); Father Michael Rayan, Catholic priest, who's been working in Moscow for 25 years; and Vakhtang Kipshidze, head of the Synodal Information's Department analytical section, joined us to discuss the historic meeting.
