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Vatican signs new collaboration agreements with Azerbaijan

The agreements are the latest development in the controversial relationship between the Holy See and the Azeri regime.

Edgar Beltrán
Sep 13, 2025
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The Vatican this week signed several new collaborative agreements with Azerbaijan’s government, the latest in a series of controversial arrangements with a government accused of ethnically cleansing Christian minorities within its territory.

St. Peter’s Basilica, seen from Rome’s Via della Conciliazione. Ernesto Spaziani via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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