The society has a high level of support for State policy in the field of religion — the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Today on September 7 the Central Communications Service hosted a briefing by the Chairman of the Committee on Religious Affairs of the Ministry of Information and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan Yerzhan Nukezhanov «On the general situation in the field of religion».

During the briefing, E. Nukezhanov spoke about the results of work to ensure a stable religious situation for the first half of the year and the tasks facing the Committee until the end of this year.

The Chairman of the Committee stressed that the society maintains a high level of support for State policy in the religious sphere – 87.6%.

He paid special attention to strengthening the work on the prevention of religious extremism on the Internet during the pandemic. Compared to last year twice as many preventive and counter-propaganda materials have been placed in the information space, to date their number has reached 62 thousand.

At the same time, it was possible to divert more than 84 thousand Kazakhstan citizens from radical groups in social networks, thereby preventing their involvement in the ideology of destructive religious movements.

An important result of the Ministry's work was the deradicalization of 96% of women returned from terrorist activity zones as part of Operation «Zhusan». 

1. Nukezhanov also informed about the work on improving legislation in the field of religious activity. It is planned to introduce amendments that will simplify the issues of registration of religious associations and holding religious events. 

In addition, E. Nukezhanov thanked the religious associations of the country for understanding and supporting the quarantine restrictions, as well as for the ongoing explanatory work with a call for vaccination among the believers.

At the end of the briefing the Chairman of the Committee answered questions from journalists.