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Pope Francis, left, reaches to embrace Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill after signing a joint declaration at the Jose Marti International airport in Havana, Cuba o Feb. 12, 2016. Pope Francis has sent a protocol greeting to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, wishing him prayers on a feast day, as the Vatican insists on maintaining cordial relations amid mounting criticism of its stance from within the Catholic hierarchy. The website of the Moscow Patriarchate published the brief letter of greetings Francis sent Patriarch Kirill on his name day Tuesday to mark the feast of St. Cyril, a saint important to both Catholics and Orthodox. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, Pool)

Pope greets Russian patriarch, criticized for ‘naive’ policy

By Nicole Winfield and Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

A Ukrainian refugee walks with her child at a camp in Utopia Park in Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Monday, May 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Live updates | UN: More than 300 evacuated from Mariupol

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Irina Tromsa, 55, is contorted by comrades of her son Bogdan, 24, a Ukrainian paratrooper from the 95th Brigade killed during fighting against Russian troops in the north-east of the country, during his funeral at the cemetery in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, on Saturday, April 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Live updates | Ukraine: Civilians in steelworks beg for aid

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In this file photo from Nov. 4, 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, left, walk to lay flowers at the monument of Minin and Pozharsky at Red Square in Moscow, during National Unity Day. The Russian Church said on Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, that Patriarch Kirill has sent a letter to the U.N. secretary-general, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, Pope Francis, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other spiritual leaders, urging them to help protect the clerics, believers and their faith in Ukraine. (Alexander Nemenov/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Moscow-aligned Ukrainian Orthodox clerics call for tribunal for Patriarch Kirill, key Putin ally

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Pope Francis, left, and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill exchange a joint declaration on religious unity in Havana, Cuba on Feb. 12, 2016. The head of the Polish bishops’ conference had done what Pope Francis has so far avoided doing by publicly condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki also publicly urged the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to use his influence on Vladimir Putin to demand an end to the war and for Russian soldiers to stand down. “The time will come to settle these crimes, including before the international courts,&quot; Gadecki warned in his March 2 letter to Patriarch Kirill. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, Pool)

Pope asserts Ukraine right to defense in blasting Russia war

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill delivers the Christmas Liturgy in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. Parishioners wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus, observed social distancing guidelines as they attended the liturgy Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, in accordance with the Julian calendar. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russian Orthodox Church leader: Ukraine invasion a justified war against gay pride

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, background center, conducts the church's main service celebrating Orthodox Easter at Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, early Sunday, April 19, 2020. Orthodox priests in much of Europe held Easter services in churches empty of parishioners because of restrictions imposed to block the spread of coronavirus. (Igor Palkin, Russian Orthodox Church Press Service via AP)

Hundreds of Russian Orthodox clerics sign letter calling for end to Ukraine invasion

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this handout photo released by Basmanny Court via Moscow News Agency, Father Sergiy, a Russian monk who has defied the Russian Orthodox Church's leadership, stands in a cage prior to a court session in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020. Father Sergiy, who has castigated the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church leadership and denied the coronavirus existence, was detained Tuesday Dec. 29, 2020, by police at a monastery in the Urals and flown to Moscow where he will face criminal charges. (Basmanny Court, Moscow News Agency photo via AP)

Russian monk charged with inciting suicidal acts in sermons

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Historic Russian Orthodox church in Alaska to be renovated

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FILE In this file photo taken on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, Father Sergiy, a Russian monk who has defied the Russian Orthodox Church's leadership, right, speaks to journalists in Russian Ural's Sredneuralsk, Russia. The Russian Orthodox Church on Friday July 3, 2020, defrocked Father Sergiy, who has defied the coronavirus lockdown orders and has taken control over a monastery. (AP Photo/Vladimir Podoksyonov, FILE)

Russian Orthodox Church defrocks coronavirus-denying monk

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Father Sergiy, a Russian monk who has defied the Russian Orthodox Church's leadership, right, speaks to journalists in Russian Ural's Sredneuralsk, Russia, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The monk, who has denied the coronavirus' existence and urged believers to ignore the Kremlin's lockdown orders, has taken control of a monastery in the Ural Mountains. (AP Photo/Vladimir Podoksyonov)

Russian monk denying coronavirus takes control of monastery

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Britain's Prince Charles, center, arrives at the Church of St Mary Magdalene where Charles' grandmother Princess Alice is buried, in Jerusalem, Israel, Friday, Jan. 2020. Prince Charles is on a tour of Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories. (Neil Hall/Pool Photo via AP)

Prince Charles visits Jerusalem tomb of unique ancestor

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

FILE In this file photo taken on Saturday, July 28, 2018, Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, right, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa Theodoros II, left, walk to attend a ceremony marking the 1,030th anniversary of the adoption of Christianity by Prince Vladimir, the leader of Kievan Rus, a loose federation of Slavic tribes that preceded the Russian state in Moscow, Russia. The Russian Orthodox Church has cut ties with the head of the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate in Alexandria following his decision to recognize Ukraine's new independent Orthodox Church. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Russia Orthodox Church cuts ties with Alexandria patriarch

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Scrap metal, heavy church bell stolen from demolition site

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Riot police stand next to demonstrators gather in front of a newly built fence blocked by police, during a protest against plans to construct a cathedral in a park with the Church on the Blood, a cathedral erected on a place where the last czar, his wife Alexandra and their five children were executed in 1918, in Ural Mountain city of Yekaterinburg, background, in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Wednesday, May 15, 2019. Hundreds of riot police have surrounded a park in Russia's fourth-largest city before what's expected to be a third consecutive day of protests against building a new cathedral. (AP Photo/Anton Basanayev)

Putin calls for compromise over Orthodox cathedral standoff

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press