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Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and a delegation headed by him were received at an audience by Pope Francis in the Vatican on Saturday.

The delegation is visiting the Vatican and Rome on Saturday and Sunday, on the occasion of May 24, when the Day of Bulgarian Education and Culture and Slavonic Script is celebrated.

President Klaus Iohannis will visit on Thursday the Universal Expo 2015 in Milan, and will be received the next day at the Vatican by Pope Francis, the Presidential Administration informs.

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BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will pay a one-day official visit to the Vatican on Friday and convey to Pope Francis certain positions of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) which are of mutual interest, the president's media relations office said in a release.

President to visit Vatican on April 17

BELGRADE -- President Tomislav Nikolic will pay an official one-day visit to Vatican on April 17, where he will confer with the pontiff of the Roman Catholic, Pope Francis.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will pay an official one-day visit to Vatican on April 17, where he will confer with supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church Pope Francis.

President Nikolic and Pope Francis will discuss the topics of mutual importance to the two countries, including the situation in Kosovo-Metohija and current international issues.

Pope Francis spoke at the Vatican, giving his annual urbi et orbi ("to the city of Rome and to the world") address at the end of Easter Mass. This year, the Pontiff lamented people's suffering, conflicts taking place in the world and violence. He pleaded for the end of violence, especially in Iraq and Syria. He called for humanitarian aid to make its way to places where it is needed.

In an Easter peace wish, Pope Francis on April 5 praised the framework nuclear agreement with Iran as an opportunity to make the world safer, while expressing deep worry about bloodshed in Libya, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa.
     

Masses of cheering believers in the Philippines turned out to bid farewell to Pope Francis Jan. 19, a fitting end to a week in Asia that saw him draw record crowds and campaign relentlessly for the poor.
      

Pope Francis celebrated mass with millions of singing and cheering Catholics in the Philippine capital on Jan. 18, in one of the world's biggest outpourings of papal devotion.
      

Pope Francis called for "tenderness" and "warmth" after a violence-plagued year as millions of Christians began marking Christmas.
      
The Argentine pontiff's brief homily was replete with Gospel references in his Christmas Eve mass, broadcast live in 3D for the first time.