In Kazakhstan, people have been mesmerized by the country's first ever live-streamed trial. It's the trial of a former government minister who was accused of murdering his wife.

Most of Kazakhstan’s Catholics are Latin-rite, but there is also an Eastern-rite minority of approximately 3,000 people. St. John Paul II visited the country in 2001 to an enthusiastic welcome.

Faithful wait for Pope Francis arrival to celebrate a Mass at the Expo Grounds in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Sep. 14, 2022. (Credit: AP Photo/Andrew Medichini.) Listen ROME – After ...

The people of Kazakhstan were likely first evangelized by Franciscan missionaries in the 13th century. The Catholic population grew thanks to deportations of believers from across the Soviet Union.

According to Kazakhstan’s Research Institute for Radiation Medicine and Ecology, about 1.5 million people lived in the test site area during the nuclear tests. Hundreds of thousands experienced ...

Dozens of people have died after an Azerbaijan Airlines flight traveling from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to Grozny in Russia crashed on Christmas Day 2024, according to reports.

Once one of the worlds largest inland lakes, Asia's Aral Sea has evaporated into desert, dried by Soviet era irrigation plans. One village in Kazakhstan sits on the shrinking shores of the Aral Sea.

The country is looking to boost its power generation capacity with the construction of its first nuclear facility Kazakhstan votes in a referendum on Sunday on whether to build its first nuclear ...

An Azerbaijani airliner carrying 67 people crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing at least 38 who were on board, according to a Kazakh official.

In Kazakhstan, people have been mesmerized by the country's first ever live-streamed trial. It's the trial of a former government minister who was accused of murdering his wife. The case has ...

An Azerbaijani airliner carrying 67 people crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing at least 38 who were on board, according to a Kazakh official.

ALMATY - Kazakhstan began voting in a referendum on Oct 6 on whether to build its first nuclear power plant, an idea promoted by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s government as the Central Asian ...