Pope benedict visiting Azerbaijan !

Pope Francis is wrapping up a Caucasus voyage that began in June in Armenia and completions this weekend with a visit to two distinct countries with minor Catholic society: the Orthodox Christian bastion of Georgia and the, as it were, Shiite Muslim nation of Azerbaijan.

Given the calendar, Catholic-Orthodox and Christian-Muslim relations will be high on Francis' arrangement. Be that as it may, geopolitical concerns will in like manner lurk off camera in the midst of the three-day trip starting Friday in Georgia, one of the world's most prepared Christian territories.

For one thing, Georgia rushes to use the outing to highlight its European and Western desires, moreover pull in insightfulness with respect to what it considers the Russian "occupation" of the areas of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

South Ossetia and Abkhazia split a long way from Georgia in the mid 1990s. Russia satisfactorily expanded complete control over both territories after a brief war against Georgia in 2008.

Francis is farfetched to get required past general calls for peace and trade off, given a reluctance to shock Russia or the Russian Orthodox Church after his critical meeting with the Russian patriarch in Cuba earlier this year.

The Georgian priest to the Vatican, Tamara Grdzelidze, said she wasn't hopeful Francis would use the expression "occupation."

"Regardless, in Armenia he discussed "genocide," so you never know with this pope," she said, suggesting the Ottoman-time butcher of Armenians.

Adding to the geopolitical mix, Francis will make a strong development for peace in Syria and Iraq, where Christians are being struck and driven from their homes by Islamic radicals and where Francis has unequivocally reviled the late trap by Russian and Syrian forces on the northern city of Aleppo. An extraordinary event is organized Friday in the Chaldean Catholic church in Tbilisi, days after Francis forewarned those accountable for the Aleppo assault "will be viewed as mindful before God."

"The message will be a message of peace," Vatican delegate Greg Burke said.

A more subtle message is one of reliably upgrading ties between the Holy See and the two past Soviet republics.

At whatever point St. John Paul II went to Georgia in 1999 to check the tenth remembrance of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Catholic-Orthodox strains were high to the point that the Georgian Orthodox Church requested that its dependable maintain a strategic distance from his Mass. Relations are still strained, not in the slightest degree like the Vatican's all the more generous relations with other Orthodox sanctuaries.

Regardless, the Vatican says an official arrangement from the Orthodox patriarchate will go to Francis' Saturday morning Mass, a not-insignificant ecumenical change.

Monsignor Giuseppe Pasotto, the Catholic priest of Tbilisi, said Georgian Patriarch Ilia had told him he was set up to welcome the pope "in mind blowing delight."

"For Georgia's Catholics and eventually for me, the clerical visit is an amazing event," said Tako Peikrishvili, a 27-year-old from the town of Aral in southern Georgia's mountains.

Not all are regarding the visit, however — evidence that the 1,000-year split amongst Catholic and Orthodox is still particularly felt.

A week back, two or three dozen dissidents from the moderate social affair "Union of Orthodox Parents" showed outside the Vatican's administration office in Tblisi, a sign of holding up suspicions of saw Catholic advancement in Orthodox landscapes and hate of ecumenical tries by the Georgian church.

Ilia's office issued a declaration Wednesday calling the test "unacceptable" and urging all Georgians to be serene in the midst of Francis' visit.

David Tinikashvili, a Georgian Orthodox researcher, saw that undeniably, the Georgian Orthodox Church didn't harbor ill-disposed perspectives toward Rome. To be sure, even Patriarch Ilia, who was picked in 1977, at initially supported the ecumenical advancement, allowing Catholic and Anglican priests to appreciate Orthodox Church organizations, he said.

"Notwithstanding, this changed, shockingly, after the breakdown of the Soviet Union when ethnic patriotism began to create," he said.

Ramaz Sakvarelidze, a free political specialist in Tbilisi, said the ministerial visit should help to underscore Georgia's objectives for more imperative Western joining, including its searched for after enlistment in the European Union and NATO.

"The visit will verifiably emphatically influence Georgia's photo, it will underline its Euro-Atlantic desires and an aching to get a handle on the norms of the Western world," he said.

After Georgia, Francis heads to Azerbaijan, completing the visit he had trusted would have begun in Armenia and completed in Azerbaijan to show a run of the mill expansion between neighbors pointedly parceled over Nagorno-Karabakh.

Nagorno-Karabakh is formally a part of Azerbaijan, yet since a separatist war completed in 1994, it has been under the control of forces that case to be adjacent ethnic Armenians yet that Azerbaijan claims fuse typical Armenian military.

While in Armenia in June, Francis called for bargain and for all sides to "restrict being gotten up to speed in the whimsical power of countering."

"I will in like manner say that not making peace by temperance of a little settle of zone — in light of the way that that is all it is — is something bleak," he said then.

Francis will spend just around 10 hours in the Azeri capital of Baku, using a perfect chance to highlight the country's interfaith mix, meeting with the sheik of Caucasus Muslims, furthermore delegates of Azeri Jews and diverse religious gatherings.

Besides, will watch Mass for the Catholic social order which addresses under 1 percent of the people: There are around 200 Azeri-imagined Catholics and around 15,000 Catholic nonnatives who live in Baku.