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The Turkish government announced it was lifting a ban on female students wearing the Islamic headscarf at high schools.

• 23 сентября 2014, 15:43

Consumer Rights Protection Agency continues battling with fake-halal goods.

• 07 августа 2014, 16:32

Nursultan Nazarbayev has congratulated the citizens of Kazakhstan on Eid al-Fitr.

• 28 июля 2014, 20:49

A chain of specialized halal shops may soon open in every neighborhood of Astana.

• 25 июля 2014, 13:41

Jihadists in Iraq have ordered that all women between the ages of 11 and 46 must undergo female genital mutilation, which could affect up to four million women and girls in the war-ravaged country, a UN official said

• 25 июля 2014, 13:22

A Sudanese Christian woman whose death sentence for renouncing Islam sparked a global outcry that eventually led to an acquittal, met Pope Francis after arriving in Italy en route to the United States.

• 25 июля 2014, 11:14

The Central Mosque Almaty has announced a Quran recital competition among children.

• 11 июля 2014, 17:12

The ISIL jihadists whose sweeping Sunni militant offensive has captured swathes of Iraq have declared an "Islamic caliphate" in their territory as Iraqi forces battle to retake Saddam Hussein's hometown Tikrit.

• 30 июня 2014, 11:57

US Secretary of State John Kerry criticized Sudan on Thursday for sentencing a Christian woman to hang for apostasy, urging Khartoum to repeal its laws banning Muslims from converting.

• 13 июня 2014, 11:41

Brunei has postponed its implementation of tough Islamic criminal punishments that were due to begin Tuesday and have drawn condemnation from the UN's human rights office and rare criticism at home.

• 22 апреля 2014, 18:42

Lebanese politician and former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora named Kazakhstan a prime example for other Muslim countries in his letter to President Nazarbayev.

• 03 апреля 2014, 22:48

Every day there are more and more parents refusing to get their children vaccinated for religious reasons.

• 27 марта 2014, 16:15

Almost three decades after peaceful Muslim activist Mahmoud Muhammad Taha was hanged for apostasy, his daughter plans to revive his Republican Party and spread his notion of "true Islam".

• 28 февраля 2014, 15:07

A US appeals court on Wednesday ordered YouTube to take down an anti-Islamic movie that triggered protests in the Muslim world, after an actress alleged she had been duped into appearing in it.

• 27 февраля 2014, 17:27

The so-called Chinese Threat and Arab Islamization are among the major influences Kazakhstan is susceptible to.

• 19 февраля 2014, 16:08

An Indonesian court Tuesday jailed the mastermind of an Islamic extremist plot to bomb the Myanmar embassy for seven-and-a-half years, but the militant pledged to "continue fighting the enemies of Islam".

• 21 января 2014, 15:03

The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) is going to invest into 4 new projects in Kazakhstan in 2014.

• 17 января 2014, 14:48

The Grand Mufti has spoken up for organ donation in Kazakhstan.

• 16 января 2014, 17:48

Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi arrived at the courthouse on Wednesday for the second hearing in his murder trial, as police braced for rallies by his Islamist supporters.

• 08 января 2014, 14:52

Islamic police in Indonesia's sharia stronghold seized thousands of firecrackers and cardboard trumpets after the city administration banned New Year's Eve celebrations for the first time, an official said Tuesday.

• 31 декабря 2013, 15:10