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

(GIST OF SCIENCE REPORTER) 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.

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, 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.