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Tbilisi - 1 October 2016
1. Various of Pope Francis entering Meskhi stadium for mass
2. Various of pope arriving at Church of Assumption for meeting with priests, religious men and women, seminarists and pastoral care agents
3. Pope waving to small crowd of faithful
4. Various pope entering church
5. Pope listening to bishop Giuseppe Pasotto
6. Faithful
7. Pope listening to young christian
8. Close-up speech of christian mother
9. Pope greeting christian mother
10. Pope smiling
11. Pope greeting seminarist
12. Various of Tbilisi suburbs near the centre of the Camillian Fathers, centre for disabled people
13. Various of Pope and disabled people
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Mtskheta - 1 October 2016
14. Various of Pope arrival and meeting with Georgian Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II
15. Orthodox people in traditional dress
16. Various of Pope Francis with Patriarch Ilia II inside patriarchal cathedral of Svetitskhoveli
17. Pope leaving
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Pope Francis' efforts to improve relations with the Georgian Orthodox Church suffered a public setback Saturday after the patriarchate decided not to send an official delegation to his Mass and repeated that Orthodox faithful cannot participate in Catholic services.
Francis nevertheless pressed on with his agenda, insisting that Catholics must never try to convert Orthodox and bowing in prayer alongside the Orthodox patriarch after they both lit a candle in the Orthodox spiritual headquarters.
He called for the historical divisions that have "lacerated" Christianity to be healed through patience, trust and dialogue.
Saturday's developments on the second and final day of Francis' visit to Georgia reflected the "one step forward, two steps back" progress that often accompanies the Vatican's outreach to Orthodox and other Christian churches.
On Sunday, Francis heads to largely Shiite Muslim Azerbaijan, where the Catholic Church enjoys good relations with the government despite allegations in the West of human rights abuses and suppression of dissent.
In the run-up to Francis' Caucasus visit, the Vatican spokesman had said the Georgian Orthodox Patriarchate would send a delegation to the Mass in a Tbilisi sports stadium "in a sign of the rapport between the two churches" - suggesting that the chill that had clouded the 1999 visit of St. John Paul II to Georgia had warmed slightly.
And Francis received a unexpectedly warm welcome from the Orthodox leader upon his arrival Friday, with Patriarch Ilia calling Francis my "dear brother" and toasting him saying: "May the Lord bless the Catholic Church of Rome."
But Orthodox patriarchate spokeswoman Nato Asatiani said Saturday that the delegation had stayed away "by mutual agreement".
The patriarchate updated a statement on its website saying that "as long as there are dogmatic differences between our churches, Orthodox believers will not participate in their prayers."
The decision apparently came after Francis' arrival on Friday in Tbilisi was met with protests of hard-line Orthodox opposed to any ecumenical initiatives by their church.
On Saturday, about 100 members of the hard-line group Union of Orthodox Parents demonstrated outside the stadium where Francis celebrated Mass.
Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said the Vatican accepted the Orthodox decision not to attend, which he said had been conveyed to the papal delegation Friday night. Orthodox law didn't allow for the participation of the delegation, he said.
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