Sea of nationalities awaits pope in Kazakstan

Saturday, September 22, 2001

MALINOVKA, Kazakstan -- When Pope John Paul II looks out over the crowds at his two open-air Masses in Astana Sunday and Monday, he'll see people from a sea of nationalities -- many with roots in the Stalin-era prison camps that dotted the bleak steppes of northern Kazakstan.

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