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Czechs pass $3.6-billion religious property restitution Czech lawmakers passed a bill Saturday on the restitution of assets worth up to 2.95 billion euros ($3.6 billion) seized from 17 religious denominations by Czechoslovakia's communist regime in 1948-89.

14 July 2012

US calls on Iran to release Christian pastor The United States on Monday called on Iran to release Christian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who was imprisoned in 2009 and condemned to death for converting from Islam to Christianity.

10 July 2012

Patriarch Kirill to meet with Nursultan Nazarbayev on May 29 His Holiness Kirill Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia will arrive in Astana for participation in the 4th Congress of World and Traditional Religions.

26 May 2012

Third of Kazakhstan never heard of Religion Law One third of the population in Kazakhstan has never heard of the law on “Religious activities and religious groups,” recently signed by the head of the state.

11 November 2011

Nursultan Nazarbayev received His Beatitude Alexander, the Metropolitan of Astana and Kazakhstan On behalf of the Russian Orthodox Church of Kazakhstan, the Metropolitan thanked President for all the attention to the life of the Church.

27 August 2011