Pope Francis addresses small crowd of 3,000 at service in Georgia

Orthodox church delegation refuses to attend pope's mass in the ex-Soviet state, which is overwhelmingly Orthodox Christian Pope Francis has said mass for an unusually small crowd of just a few thousand Catholics in Georgia, in a celebration further dampened when a delegation from the Orthodox church refused to attend the service. The ex-Soviet state of Georgia is overwhelmingly Orthodox Christian. Fewer than 1% of the population is Catholic, according to government figures, but organisers had s...