Indeed. My roommate works for a Catholic charity in Chechnya.
--- On Mon, 4/20/09, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
>
> For a thoughtful consideration of the question, see Ian
> Linden, Global Catholicism (Columbia UP 2009). From
> the review in the current TLS--
> > It provides almost the only charitable presence in Chechnya,
> and other blackspots often forgotten by the rest of the
> world. Yet these marks of health contrast sharply with the
> often poor standard of the Church’s leadership..."
>