VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis returned from his brief trip to Kazakhstan, a country nestled between Russia and China, having failed to sit down with his Russian counterpart Patriarch Kirill or the delegation of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Does the road to Beijing and Moscow pass through Kazakhstan? Probably, judging by the advances made, step by step, through the diplomacy of the Holy See on the occasion of the Sovereign Pontiff’s visit to Nour Sultan, the Kazakh capital, within the framework of the VII Congress of Spiritual Leaders of World and Traditional Religions.