Pope Francis will meet with Tokayev in Kazakhstan

In September 2022, Pope Francis will come to Kazakhstan. He will meet with the head of the country Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev. This was reported by the presidential press service.

According to Reuters, Pope hopes to meet there with the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Cyril. They were supposed to meet in June in Jerusalem, but the Vatican postponed the meeting, because she "at that time could lead to great confusion."

The upcoming visit by the head of the Catholic Church to Kazakhstan was reported back in April 2022. Then Tokaev held negotiations with a pontiff on video communication.

In September, the VII Congress of World Religions, to which Francis, will be held in Nur-Sultan.

• Kazakhstan became the first state of Central Asia to signing an agreement on relations with the Vatican. In 2001, the country was visited by Pope John Pavel II.
• In May, in an interview with Pope, Roman spoke about his attempts to achieve a ceasefire in Ukraine, which have not yet led to the result. On the first day of the Russian invasion, Francis spoke on the phone with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, and instead of calling, Vladimir Putin personally visited the Russian ambassador to tell him the request to stop hostilities.