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By Micah Halpern
Friday December 4, 2009 I've Been Thinking: The Vatican and Russian are making peace. Since 1990 relations between the two parties was so troubled that they had no ambassadorial exchange. Now President Medvedev of Russia visited Rome and successfully hammered out a solution that will lift the diplomatic status to the level of ambassadors. Under Communism, established religion was illegal. Today there is serious competition for religious followers. The Russian Orthodox Church has argued that Roman Catholics were poaching adherents and were proselytizing. This is a battle over more than souls, it is a battle for money, too. The Catholic Church has a lot of capital to invest in building, not only in chasing new believers. Putin and Medvedev are looking towards the future. Relations with the Vatican today will be brokered into a political tool for Russia to utilize at a later date in a power play. Read my new book THUGS. It's easy. Just click. 4 June 2017 12:13 PM in Thoughts
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