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Church in the WorldPresident Putin to visit the VaticanRussia Josef Pazderka - 3 March 2007The Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican on 13 March in the highest-level Kremlin-Vatican talks for more than three years, the Russian Government has confirmed, writes Josef Pazderka. The meeting will be Mr Putin's first visit to the Vatican since Pope Benedict XVI's election. Neither the Russian Government nor the Orthodox Church would comment on speculation that Mr Putin's delegation might contain a representative of the Moscow Orthodox Patriarchate. Moscow-Vatican relations have improved under Benedict XVI but remain strained by the Orthodox Church's accusations - which the Vatican rejects - that Russia's tiny Catholic community is trying to proselytise baptised Orthodox believers. The Vatican's envoy to Russia, Archbishop Antonio Mennini, has stressed recent "positive experiences" that might lead to the Patriarch of Moscow, Alexei II, meeting the Pope. But Alexei II has said that such a meeting would have to mark a new stage in the Churches' relationship and be more than "just a protocol meeting before the TV cameras". |
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