October 16, 2009. Pope Benedict XVI received Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in his library.


Tymoshenko said the visit was extremely important to her and Ukraine. The discussions between the two were cordial and focused on the contributions the Catholic Church, of both rites, has made to Ukrainian society. Ukraine is a country with a population of nearly 47 million people, nearly 5 million of them are baptized Catholics. MC