CAIRO - Orthodox Christian leaders meeting for a historic council aimed at promoting unity made a last-minute appeal on June 17 to the Russian Orthodox Church and three others to attend the gathering, the first such meeting in more than a millennium.
Associated Press: Orthodox Christian leaders make last-minute appeal for unity
Fener Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I stands after a mass as part of celebrations of the Epiphany day at the Church of Fener Orthodox Patriarchiate in Istanbul, on January 6, 2015.
