ALMATY — Kazakhstan’s Spiritual Administration of Muslims has approved the religious calendar for 2026 on Jan. 8, announcing ...

In a world where Israel can claim few Muslim friends, no one is more passionate about Kazakhstan than the Israeli envoy to this oil-rich nation. While the nation jockeys to be a major energy producer, ...

Kazakhstan's newly created Ministry of Religious Issues and Civil Society says it is taking steps to ban the Salafi branch of Islam in the country. Minister Nurlan Ermekbaev said on October 14 in ...

A good Muslim should look the part – legislation now being pushed by Kazakhstan’s government essentially boils down to that simple precept. Followers of ultra-orthodox currents of Islam are incensed ...

China has thanked Kazakhstan for supporting its crackdown on the restive far-west region of Xinjiang, where Beijing is accused of rights abuses against indigenous ethnic groups, including Kazakhs.

The Kazakh Muftiate, also known as the Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Kazakhstan (SDMK), has published an appeal to Kazakh nationals who traveled to Syria to fight. The plea, published on ...

Astana, 8 June 2011 (WAM) -- Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has announced Kazakhstan's proposals to modernize Muslim countries. Speaking at the 7th World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) in Astana ...

KABUL, May 22 (Reuters) - The Taliban has warned majority Muslim Kazakhstan that its decision to send troops to the NATO-led war in Afghanistan would have severe consequences and was not in its ...