INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY: THEORY AND HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE”
Addressing the meeting were Chairman of the State Committee on Working with Religious Structures, Prof. Rafig Aliyev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Humanitarian Policy of the President’s Administration Tariel Hasanov, Ambassador of the Arabic Republic of Egypt to Azerbaijan Mrs. Jihan Amin Mohammad Ali, Dean of the Faculty of Theology of the Sudchu Imam University Turkey Kamal Atyg, ustad of Scientific Madrasah GUM of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mehdi Khadevi, Turkish professor Jelal Erbey, first Deputy mufti of Kirghizstan Haji Neymatulla. The speakers noted that the United Nations Organization declared June 21 World Peace and Prayer Day, and that exactly on this day three years ago, nationawide leader of Azerbaijani people Heydar Aliyev initiated founding of the State Committee on Working With Religious Structures.
The conference participants also debated over religious values, democratic institutions, state-religion relationship, religious communities in Azerbaijan, religion and terrorism, and Islam and democracy.
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