(THE GIST OF PIB) Prime Minister visit to the Vatican City


(GIST OF SCIENCE REPORTER) Prime Minister visit to the Vatican City

[November-2021]


Prime Minister visit to the Vatican City

  • His Holiness Pope Francis received Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in a private audience at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican on Saturday, 30 October 2021.

About:

  • This was the first meeting between an Indian Prime Minister and the Pope in more than two decades.
  • In June 2000, Late Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee had last visited the Vatican and met the then Pope, His Holiness John Paul II.
  • India and The Holy See have friendly relations dating back to the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1948.
  • India is home to the second-largest Catholic population in Asia.
  • Prime Minister extended an invitation to His Holiness Pope Francis to visit India at an early date, which was accepted with pleasure.

Vatican City:

  • Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State is a landlocked and independent city state and enclave located within Rome, Italy.
  • The Vatican City State, also known simply as the Vatican, became independent from Italy with the Lateran Treaty (1929).
  • it is a distinct territory under “full ownership, exclusive dominion, and sovereign authority and jurisdiction” of the Holy See, itself a sovereign entity of international law, which maintains the city state’s temporal, diplomatic, and spiritual independence.
  • With an area of 49 hectares and a population of about 825, it is the smallest state in the world by both area and population.

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Courtesy: Science Reporter