A Council for Relations with Religious Associations has been established in the district, as an advisory body under the akim of the district, the Regulations on the Council and the composition of the Council have been approved. The meetings of the Council are held once a quarter, the decisions of the Council are advisory in nature. The Council for Relations with Religious Associations was established in accordance with the Decree of the Akimat of the district No. 02-42 of 09.02.2022. The Council includes representatives of religious denominations, law enforcement officers and public associations, deputies, and media representatives.
To date, 48 religious associations are operating in the district according to registration records. Of them: 27 are Islam, 6 Orthodox, 3 Catholic and 12 Protestants.
All religious associations are engaged in charitable activities. The purpose of the activities of religious associations is to promote religion, actively participate in any religious events, charity events, attract the younger generation to humanity, patriotism, religious education and upbringing, organize pilgrimages to shrines, take care of burial places. Printed publications of a religious nature are not published on the territory of the district. Non-traditional religious associations and religious extremist groups are not registered in the district. Also, there were no facts of violations of the current legislation by religious associations on the territory of the district. Charity is a socially significant activity of all denominations.
Measures are being taken to prevent the propaganda and support of extremism by ensuring the publication in the regional media of materials aimed at strengthening interethnic and interfaith harmony.
The materials provided by the KSU "Center for the Study of Problems in the Field of Religion" are published Almaty region in social networks. Facebook Instagram, social networks (VKontakte, Instagram, Facebook) regularly publish information about the Rules aimed at preventing the threat of terrorism and remuneration for it. The helpline 8-800-080-28-95 on issues of concern to the population, the Hotline 114 on the threat of terrorism, etc. To date, no radical users or extremist sites have been identified on the social network.
The Department is working to identify information about persons committed to non-traditional beliefs in rural districts and Talgar. At the moment, such people have not been identified.
There were no facts of conditions and prerequisites in the socio-political and socio-economic spheres capable of provoking the spread of non-traditional religious movements and associations, as well as substantive measures of a legal, economic, social, organizational, educational and propaganda nature to eliminate them in the district.
The religious situation in the district is under constant control of the Council for Relations with Religious Associations under the Akimat of the district.