Metropolitan Hilarion, who leads the Russian Orthodox Church's foreign relations, announces on Oct. 15 that the Russian Orthodox Church was severing its ties with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I after the leader of the worldwide Orthodox community granted a Ukrainian church independence from the Moscow Patriarchate. The dispute marks one of the biggest Orthodox schisms in the past millennium.
On the Record The Arab world is facing its own version of an Iron Curtain, imposed not by external actors but through domestic forces vying for power. Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, from his last column published by The Washington Post On Our Radar Saudi Royal Pains. The White House is coordinating closely with embattled Saudi leaders in trying to contain the fallout from the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. While this crisis is not going to cause a major breach in the Saudi-U.S. strategic relationship, it will have consequences. Congress can place checks on U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia and we're already seeing the economic fallout as business and political leaders pull out of next week's high-profile Foreign Investment Initiative in Riyadh.
