Happy Birthday, Pope Francis he is now 86 years old.
The Vatican on Friday termed the gesture a “donation” from the pope to His Beatitude Ieronymos II, the Orthodox Christian archbishop of Athens and all Greece.
The Vatican said it was “a concrete sign of his sincere desire to follow in the ecumenical path of truth.” The Vatican thus becomes the latest Western state to return to Greece its fragments of the Parthenon Sculptures. The British Museum has rebuffed repeated Greek requests to return its own much larger collection of the works.
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