About 100 pro-Ukraine demonstrators protest outside the Russian Embassy
in Ottawa, Ontario, March 16 to draw attention to what they called the illegal referendum in Crimea, where 95 percent of voters cast ballots in favor of joining Russia. Pope Francis met privately at the Vatican with the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church March 17, the day after pro-Russian voters on the Crimean peninsula voted to secede from Ukraine in a referendum the United States and European Union called illegal. (CNS photo/Art Babych) (March 17, 2014) See UKRAINE-SHEVCHUK March 17, 2014.