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Christmas 2007
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This is our second Christmas season since we arrived at this parish and we are very happy to see that this year...
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Feast of the Patron Saint and the Blessing of the Sisters’ Convent
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On October 1st, we celebrated the Feast of our Patron Saint. This year we had a special guest: Bishop Henry Howaniecs, who came from Almata to celebrate this...
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Summer Camp
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From July 9th till July 13th we had a summer camp with the children of the Parish in Burguluk, a tourism resort not far from Shymkent.
It was...
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Corpus Christi and blessing of new icons for the tabernacle
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Since our arrival to the parish we"ve been having a Holy Hour after Mass and to our surprise, most of our parishioners...
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Visit to the parish priest in Taraz
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We visited Fr. Piotr a Polish priest who works in Taraz, a city 160 kms from Shymkent. Fr. Piotr has been living...
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Visit to the “Novices”
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As you may already know, the SSVM sisters will open a house in Shymkent in July but they already now have two...
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Easter Celebrations
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Happily after overcoming some obstacles we were able to Celebrate Easter. During the celebration a woman, after having...
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Baptism in articulo mortis
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Mikhail is a 78 years old man who suffers from cancer. His wife, a Lithuanian woman, had always wanted to convert him but Mikhail never wanted to. After the many prayers of his wife, one day Mikhail a...
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Fr. Ivan’s arrival to Shymkent.
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Fr. Ivan was ordained to the priesthood on last December and arrived to Shymkent on January 25th. As soon as he arrived a...
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Christmas in Kazakhstan
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This was our first Christmas in our parish in Chimkent, Kazakhstan. As it happens, Christmas time is a special moment to...
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Arthur’s Baptism
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On November 23, Arthur, who is 14 years old, was baptized in our Parish. Arthur took as a patron saint St. Clement ...
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Youth Group
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As soon as we came to work in the Parish, we started catechisms lessons for children right after Holy Mass and this served the occasion to form our Children Group or Oratory...
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Patron Saint Feast in Chimkent, Kazakhstan
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On October first we had our Parish Feast in which we celebrated the Feast of St. Therese of Lisieux, patroness of our Parish in Chymkent, Kazakhstan...
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First Parish mission carried out by IVE priests in Central Asia
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From August 18th to 19th a parish mission was carried out in our parish in Chimkent, Kazakhstan, by the IVE priests and religious who live and work in Tajikistan...
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Fr. Dumont appointed as the new parish r. priest in Chimkent, Kazakhstan (28.05.2006)
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IVE takes over a parish in Kazakhstan. Fr. Dumont appointed as the new parish priest in Chimkent, Kazakhstan...
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