“I am a priest who comes from this nation, from this nationality, because my father's name is Kazakh and my mother comes from the Ukraine - but we Kazakhs always count nationality by father, so I feel and consider myself a Kazakh,” says Fr. Ruslan Rakhimberlinov from Karaganda, Kazakhstan, as he anticipates Pope Francis' arrival in Nur-Sultan on Tuesday.
“In the 20 years of our existence in Kazakhstan, we are the only seminary in Central Asia, and we are very happy that God is giving us this grace.”Also noteworthy is that Fr. Ruslan is the first Kazakh priest in the country. “I was introduced to the Catholic Church when I was about 15 years old,” he says.
All these years, he served as a priest in various parishes of Kazakhstan, especially in the Karaganda Diocese. Pope Francis, he goes on to explain, will find in Kazakhstan,"a Church that is familiar with the idea of synodality and puts it into practice," because “we all realise here that the community of Catholics in Kazakhstan is a small flock."
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