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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Pope Francis in Vatican
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday held talks with Pope Francis and Italian political leaders during a lightning visit to the Vatican.
Putin’s meeting with the Pope
their third in total
came a day ahead of a visit by Ukrainian Catholic leaders to the Vatican in which they’re expected to talk about the crisis in their home country.
It also comes just months after Ukraine’s Orthodox Church, which had for centuries been under the control of the Russian Orthodox Church, declared its independence in one of the biggest Christian splits since the Great Schism of 1054 which resulted in the creation of the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches.
Russia has opposed the move, branding it more political than religious.
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Pope Francis in Vatican
President Vladimir Putin of Russia has met Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Pope Francis on a one-day visit to Rome. The Russian leader asked for the softening of the sanctions imposed on his country by the EU and the US since the war in Ukraine broke out.
2019-07-04T13:18:17Z