Well , short answer is there are not many Catholics . Azerbaijan has an incredibly small community really probably anywhere between 60 and 80 Catholic families , mainly made up of Poles and Germans who ' s families had been deported to Azerbaijan during WWII and expats working in diplomacy or oil . They did not even have a church until Pope St . John Paul II in 2002 the church they did build is not particularly pretty in my opinion , but it gets the job done % D 0 % 91 % D 0 % B 0 % D 0 % BA % D 1 % 83 . Kyrgyzstan has even more Germans in their Church , but went through some pretty rough times and is very insular . They do have 3 12 churches in the country , which is pretty impressive and many of the Catholics there have insane stories about keeping the faith alive during the repressive Soviet times . Uzbekistan has a really interesting Catholic community that ' s actually slightly bigger , especially in Tashkent . It has a gorgeous cathedral , Tashkent and I went to my favorite Easter Vigil mass of all time there it was in 5 languages , was around 6 hours long . There community is made up of Poles and Germans , but also a substantial Korean population that is Catholic . But in a nutshell , not much outreach to the native populations of the country . Many of the countries have a very live and let live policy towards religious freedom . They are fine if you have churches and minister to ethnicities that are traditionally Catholic like the many I mentioned above and to foreigners , but converting actual Uzbeks , Kyrgyz , and Azeris is frowned upon . So , none of the places I mentioned offer mass in the native language of the country , though most offer it in Russian a common second language for most . It ' s a sad reality , but many of the priests are just content to not be persecuted by the government so they are wary to rock the boat by reaching out to the native population and stealing them away from Islam . As horrifying as it sounds , I have actually heard stories of priests turning converts away .