Francis has criticised Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Patriarch Kirill’s support for the war, telling an Italian newspaper in May that the patriarch shouldn’t become “Putin’s altar boy.”
Vatican says Pope Francis to visit Kazakhstan; expected to meet Russian Orthodox patriarch who justified Ukraine invasion
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