Metropolitan Hilarion<\/p><\/div>
\nMoscow, November 26, Interfax \u2013 The meeting between the Moscow Patriarch and the Pope is getting nearer each day, the Russian Orthodox Church said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach day brings us closer to this meeting between the Pope and Patriarch,\u201d head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, told journalists in Moscow.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now we are not prepared to make known the date, nor are we engaged in any concrete preparations for the meeting, but we are certainly getting closer to it. It is a calendar and astronomical fact,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The work carried out by the Russian Church with the Catholic Church is aimed \u201cimproving the general climate and achieving a higher level of mutual understanding,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: Orthodox Church Media Network November 26, 2010 Moscow, November 26, Interfax \u2013 The meeting between the Moscow Patriarch and the Pope is getting nearer each day, the Russian Orthodox Church said. \u201cEach day brings us closer to this meeting between the Pope and Patriarch,\u201d head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1784],"tags":[102,296],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8428,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8427\/revisions\/8428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}