Pope Benedict XVI will receive Israeli President Shimon Peres in a private audience at his summer residence outside Rome on September 6, the Vatican said Friday.The two men have met before, in April last year, and when Peres became president in July the Roman Catholic pontiff urged him to work to "advance the cause of peace" in the Middle East.
Israel and the Holy See have long been in talks about the legal and financial status of the Roman Catholic church in the Jewish state.
Officials from both sides met in May and said they made "significant progress" in reaching a deal on the legal and tax status of Church property in Israel and the commercial activities of Christian communities there.
Peres will visit Castel Gandolfo as part of an official visit to Italy, during which he will also meet his Italian counterpart Giorgio Napolitano and Prime Minister Romano Prodi, ANSA news agency reported.
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