Pope Francis expects to have a meeting with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia in Kazakhstan in September, La Stampa quoted the Bishop of Rome as saying on Tuesday.
"I was supposed to meet him on June 14 in Jerusalem, to talk about our affairs," but a decision was made "by mutual agreement" to postpone the meeting to a later date over the conflict in Ukraine, "so that our dialogue was not misunderstood," the head of the Catholic Church said.
"I hope to meet him <...> in Kazakhstan in September. I hope I can greet him and talk a little with him as a pastor," the Italian newspaper quoted Francis as saying.
Back in April, the Bishop of Rome confirmed his participation in a meeting of the Congress of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions to be held in Kazakhstan in September.
