Cardinal Joseph Coutts at the Rome office of Aid to the Church in Need April 2, 2019.

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Cardinal Joseph Coutts at the Rome office of Aid to the Church in Need April 2, 2019.

There are an estimated 1.3 million Catholics in Pakistan, a Muslim-majority country with an estimated population of 233 million, making it the world’s fifth-most populous nation.