“Azerbaijan has been recognized in the world as a part of the Islamic world where Islam was spread. Islam has been our religion for many centuries, so no one can carry out missionary works here. Azerbaijan is not a place for the missionary works,” Chairman of the State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations Mubariz Gurbanli said at today’s meeting with believers in Yasamal district of Baku, APA reports.
The State Committee Chairman noted that let those who want to deal with religious propaganda conduct it among nations and tribes having no secular religion.
He said that persons who want to create Muslim separatism are actually undermining Islam.
He also touched on the religious ceremonies.
Gurbanli said that only clergymen can hold religious ceremonies according to the legislation.
“It is so all over the world. The law “On freedom of religion” envisages that only clergy having registration and permission can hold religious ceremonies. A person doing it by calling himself a clergyman is violating the law. It is illegal”, he said.
State Committee Chairman: Azerbaijan is not a place for missionary works
17 September 2014
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Only clergy having registration and permission can hold religious ceremonies
