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The Vatican's Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin is to pay a three-day visit to Bulgaria starting Saturday, Radio Vaticana's Bulgarian section says.

During his stay in Bulgaria he is set to meet with the Patriarch Neofit, who heads the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, but also with state officials such as Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and President Rosen Plevneliev.

Turkish researchers have been invited by Vatican librarian Jean-Louis Brugues to the Vatican Library, which hosts one of the world's most significant manuscript collectionsFrench archbishop and Vatican librarian Jean-Louis Brugues was in Istanbul on Feb.

Two members of a commission Pope Francis set up to study reforms, including a high-ranking Holy See official, have been arrested on suspicion of leaking confidential documents, the Vatican said on Nov. 2.

Pope Francis used his first Mass in Ecuador on July 6 to ask for support in his efforts to reach out to Catholics who feel shunned by the Church when the world's bishops gather at the Vatican in October. 

Vatican finance chief George Pell was called June 1 to give evidence at an inquiry into sex abuse as one of Pope Francis' commissioners for the protection of children accused him of being "almost sociopathic".

On a two-day visit to the Vatican, Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic met Pope Francis on Thursday and asked him to visit her mainly Catholic country.

By Costas Iordanidis

Pope Francis? finance chief said May 27 he was ready to give evidence at a child abuse inquiry in his native Australia, as the nation?s most notorious pedophile priest insisted the pair had little to do with each other.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and a delegation headed by him were received at an audience by Pope Francis in the Vatican on Saturday.

The delegation is visiting the Vatican and Rome on Saturday and Sunday, on the occasion of May 24, when the Day of Bulgarian Education and Culture and Slavonic Script is celebrated.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and the delegation headed by him will have an audience with Pope Francis on Saturday.

The visit to the Vatican and Italy on Saturday and Sunday will be on the occasion of May 24 - the Day of Bulgarian Education and Culture and Slavonic Script.