Kazakh president meets with Pope
January 19, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: Pope Francis met on January 19 with President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan.
A brief Vatican statement released after the meeting indicated that the talks had centered on “mutual collaboration in the sphere of inter-religious dialogue.”
Religious communities in the primarily Islamic nation are tightly monitored under the terms of a 2011 law. But the US Commission on International Religious Freedom reports that conditions “are moving in a positive direction as the government has made a concerted effort to improve its record.”
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