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367 religious communities registered in Azerbaijan up to now

20 November 2006 [17:40] - TODAY.AZ
367 religious communities have been registered in Azerbaijan up to now, Hidayat Orujoov the chief of the State Committee on Work with Religious Organizations told.

He said that 31 of these communities are non-Islamic, others are Islamic.

Hidayat Orujov said that the registration of religious communities and some other problems remain unsolved.

"There are religious communities that applied to be registered when the State Committee on Work with Religious Organizations was established, but their problem remained unsolved for a long time. We are investigating the applications made to the Committee in past several months. There are communities that stopped their activity. Some do not function systematically, others have no enough documents. Such kinds of communities were 100," he said.

Hidayat Orujov said that there is much to be done in the Committee, APA reports.

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