The Prime Minister of India and Pope Francis meet today at 12 PM in the Pope’s private library. The two are meeting privately excluding the delegation. The world is watching if Modi will invite the Pope to India in this historic meeting.
Modi is the fifth Indian Prime Minister to visit the Pope at the Vatican. Jawahar Lal Nehru, in 1955, the First Prime Minister of India who met the Pope in the Vatican for the first time in the history of India. This is the first visit by a Prime Minister of India to the Pope just after the visit of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited the Vatican in June 2000 and met with Pope John Paul II.