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11 FEBRUARY 2015 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Boy and Girl Scouts walk through the plaza around the Santa Cruz Catholic church in Bangkok. The neighborhood around Santa Cruz Catholic church is known for the Thai adaptation of Portuguese cakes baked in the neighborhood. Several hundred Siamese (Thai) Buddhists converted to Catholicism in the 1770s. Some of the families started baking the cakes. When the Siamese Empire in Ayutthaya was sacked by the Burmese, the Portuguese and Thai Catholics fled to Thonburi, in what is now Bangkok. The Portuguese established a Catholic church near the new Siamese capital. There are still a large number of Thai Catholics living in the neighborhood around the church. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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11 FEBRUARY 2015 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Thai Boy and Girl Scouts walk through the plaza around the Santa Cruz Catholic church in Bangkok. The neighborhood around Santa Cruz Catholic church is known for the Thai adaptation of Portuguese cakes baked in the neighborhood. Several hundred Siamese (Thai) Buddhists converted to Catholicism in the 1770s. Some of the families started baking the cakes. When the Siamese Empire in Ayutthaya was sacked by the Burmese, the Portuguese and Thai Catholics fled to Thonburi, in what is now Bangkok. The Portuguese established a Catholic church near the new Siamese capital. There are still a large number of Thai Catholics living in the neighborhood around the church. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ