Pope Francis will travel next month to Kazakhstan, where he could meet with Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, who has justified Moscow's war in Ukraine.
Francis, 85, will attend an interfaith conference in the Kazakh capital, Nur-Sultan, from Sept. 13-15, the Vatican said Monday.
The Kazakh government is hosting a "Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions" from Sept. 14-15. Kirill has been invited and the Moscow Patriarchate has said he would attend. "If you look at reality objectively, considering the damage that war brings every day to those people but also the entire world, the only reasonable thing to do is to stop and negotiate," he said. "May wisdom inspire concrete steps of peace."
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