2018-12-20
Kazakh authorities are working to rehabilitate militants and their families who have returned from Syria, while at the same time strengthening anti-terrorism laws.
2018-12-14
New laws and reforms aim to protect children from the spread of extremist interpretations of Islam through the promotion of secular education and greater parental involvement.
2018-10-11
More than 80 delegations from 46 countries participated in the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in the Kazakh capital.
2018-08-27
Certain hujras flouted the law by hiring teachers who had no legal right to teach children and lacked religious education themselves. Some teachers used starvation and solitary confinement as punishments against children.
2018-07-24
While extremists are sentenced to prison terms or killed in security operations or in terrorist attacks, their like-minded wives are often left behind with unresolved problems.
2018-07-16
The purpose of the bill is to decrease the potential risks that could destabilise relations between the state and religion, analysts say.
2018-02-26
Amendments to existing religious law aim to expand the ability of authorities against individuals or groups spreading extremist or radical views.
2018-01-22
Collaboration among the government, imams, elders, religious scholars, law enforcement and the film industry is already seeing results.
2018-01-12
Umma, the first and only Muslim magazine in Kyrgyzstan, promotes religious education to counter extremism and terrorism.
2017-12-20
The Spiritual Administration for Muslims of Kazakhstan (DUMK) has convinced nearly 5,000 extremists to abandon their radical thoughts, clerics say.
