Archbishop Buendia must have a pretty clean desk. There can’t be more than a dozen Catholics in any of those ‘Stans.
There are approximately 250,000 Catholics in Kazakhstan out of a population of 15 million.[1] Most Catholics in the country are ethnic Poles, Germans and Lithuanians.[2] There are also 3,000 Greek Catholics in the country.[2
most of them were sent there by Stalin, of course, and there were a lot of Catholic Philipinos working in the oil fields before the riots a few years ago.