Editing Pope Paul VI (section)

====Dialogues====
[[File:Jafar Shahidi and Pope Paul VI.jpg|thumb|Pope Paul VI meets [[Jafar Shahidi]] and [[Seyyed Hossein Nasr|Hossein Nasr]], Iranian Shia scholars.]]
In 1964, Paul VI created a Secretariat for non-Christians, later renamed the [[Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue]], and a year later, a new Secretariat (later Pontifical Council) for Dialogue with Non-Believers. This latter one was in 1993 incorporated by Pope John Paul II in the [[Pontifical Council for Culture]], which he had established in 1982. In 1971, Paul VI created a papal office for economic development and catastrophic assistance. To foster common bonds with all persons of goodwill, he decreed an annual peace day to be celebrated on 1 January every year. Trying to improve the condition of Christians behind the [[Iron Curtain]], Paul VI engaged in dialogue with Communist authorities at several levels, receiving Foreign Minister [[Andrei Gromyko]] and [[List of heads of state of the Soviet Union|Chairman]] of the [[Presidium of the Supreme Soviet]] [[Nikolai Podgorny]] in 1966 and 1967 in the Vatican. The situation of the Church in [[Hungarian People's Republic|Hungary]], [[Polish People's Republic|Poland]], and [[Socialist Republic of Romania|Romania]] improved during his pontificate.{{Sfn|Franzen|1988|p=427}}