The Vatican announced today that Archbishop John P. Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, is in Kiev, Ukraine this week, where he has delivered a series of talks to influential political and religious leaders.
 
Last Thursday and Friday, the Archbishop attended and spoke at the Seventh European Ministerial Conference on Mass Media Policy.

Yesterday he spoke on "Communication as a Way of Life" at the Kievan Mohyla Academy and today he addressed the Institute of Journalists on the topic of the Ukrainian translation of Church documents on communication. In attendance was Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, major archbishop of Lviv of the Ukrainians.
 
On Thursday, Archbishop Foley will speak on "Religion and Church in the Information Society" at the conference of religious and government leaders in the Round Hall of the President Hotel in Moscow, Russia.