The Great Schism of 1054 -- which split the Christian Church into Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic divisions -- still has significant religious ramifications across the globe, the Newsweek website reports today (November 10, 2017).
According to a new study by the Pew Research Center, very few Orthodox Christians say they want to be reunited with the Catholic Church.
Today, there are some 260 million Orthodox Christians around the world -- 77 percent live in Eastern Europe -- and their beliefs still differ from those of their Catholic brethren who follow the teachings of the pope.
"The view that Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism should reconcile is a minority position in every Orthodox population surveyed across Central and Eastern Europe, except Romania," the Pew study found.
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