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All in all, 275 religious associations and groups representing 42 confessions of faith are active in Almaty. This is a 10-fold increase from 1991, and a growing trend is observed.

These are Islam - 38, Russian Orthodox Church - 14, Old Believers - 2, Ahmadiyya – 2, Roman Catholic Church - 5, Judaism - 2, Lutheran Church - 5, Evangelical Christian-Baptists - some 20, Seventh-Day Adventists - 5, Pentecostals 4, Presbyterians, Bible-Christians and affiliated sects - over 40, Jehovah's Witnesses - about 30, New Apostolic Church - 2, Unification Church - 2, Buddhism - 2, the Last Testament Church – 1, Charismatic Associations - 16, Church of Jesus Christ - 2, Bahai - 2, New Orientalistic Associations (Society for Krishna Consciousness, Vaisnava, Shri Chinmoy, etc.) - 4, Biblical Church - 1, esoteric (Great White Brotherhood) - 1, Armenian Gregorian Church - 1, Transcendental Meditation - 1, Scientologists - 1 and others.

full article: http://www.almatycity.com/index.php?newsid=11

May 22, 2008 | 10:10 AM Comments  0 comments

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