Kazakhstan News News Kazakhstan » Religion: Kazakhstan: Psychiatric Detention of Activist Priest
Kazakhstan authorities on May 25, 2026, forcibly transferred a defrocked Russian Orthodox priest, Yakov Vorontsov, to a psychiatric facility outside Almaty, Human Rights Watch said today. A Kazakhstan ...
News Kazakhstan » Religion: Pope urged to avoid 'supermarket of religions' in Kazakhstan
NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AP) — Pope Francis reaffirmed the critical value Thursday of interfaith dialogue to contrast the “folly of war,” even as one of his own bishops warned that Francis’ ...
News Kazakhstan » Religion: Islamist group threatens Kazakhstan over religion law
ALMATY, Oct 26 (Reuters) - A previously unknown Islamist group has threatened ex-Soviet Kazakhstan with violence unless it abolishes a new law that bans prayer rooms in state buildings in the mainly ...
News Kazakhstan » Religion: Religious Leaders Highlight Peace, K-Wave at Astana Conference
The 8th World Traditional Religious Leaders Conference, where global religious leaders gathered in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, to discuss how to establish world peace, was held from the 17th to ...
News Kazakhstan » Religion: Kazakhstan passes restrictive religion law
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — Kazakhstan's president has approved a bill tightening registration rules for faith groups that has been described by critics as a blow to freedom of belief in the ex-Soviet ...