Training seminar on covering religious issues was held for journalists

On December 11, 2017, the Religious Affairs Committee of the Ministry of religious affairs and civil society of the Republic of Kazakhstan held a training seminar on covering religious issues in Astana.

The training was conducted with journalists and media representatives in order to determine priorities and develop proposals on the implementation of state policy in the field of religions, as well as to exchange views and experience on information coverage of religious issues.

At the opening of the event, in her opening speech, the Deputy of the Religious Affairs Committee, Abeldinova Aliya Sapabekovna, emphasized the special role of media representatives in forming immunity against manifestations of radical ideology.

Then Abeldinova A. S. elaborated on the work carried out by the Committee to implement the priorities of state policy in the field of religions. At the same time, she called on the media to support the state's policy of preserving and strengthening interfaith harmony in Kazakhstan's society, as well as to take an active part in promoting traditional spiritual values and secular principles that can resist the ideas of radical religious movements and form the necessary immunity for the population.

The training was conducted with the participation of well-known journalists Omashev Namazaly Omashevich Director Of the Institute of journalism of the L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian national university, doctor of Philology, Professor, who made a thematic report on explaining modern methods of spreading information to religious subjects; Anastasia Shchegortsova head of the Central communications service of the Ministry of information and communications of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Nabi Gulnaz Askenovna member of the Commission on human rights under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, human resources expert, philologist-journalist, trainer-psychologist.

During the training, journalists exchanged opinions, shared recommendations, discussed topical issues in the field of religions and methods of media coverage. At the end of the training, the best journalists were awarded cash prizes and certificates for the results of the year.