ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Pope Benedict XVI missed a religious feast in Turkey on Wednesday after Ankara asked him to come at a later date, denying him a chance to pursue his goal of building bridges between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches.
The head of the world's 300 million Orthodox Christians, ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, had asked Benedict to attend the liturgy marking St. Andrew's Day in a move intended to demonstrate Christian unity.
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