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President of Turkmenistan appealed to muftiet to support "spiritual health of the nation"

Society Materials 13 January 2009 09:00 (UTC +04:00)

Turkmenistan, Ashgabad, January 13/corr. Trend E.Hasanov/ Туркменистан, Ашхабад, 13 января /корр. Trend Э.Гасанов/ Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov referring to the country's Mufti stressed the importance of the task in the context that maintains the country's policy of consolidating peace and harmony, the spiritual health of the nation," Turkmen TV" Miras "(Heritage) reported on Tuesday.

Turkmens are traditionally committed to the Sunni branch of the Islamic faith. Supreme Mufti of Turkmenistan's 32-year-old Rovshan Allaberdyev concurrently heads the Council of Religious Affairs under the President of Turkmenistan. He has been educated in Ashgabat, then later disbanded at the Faculty of  State University of Theology.

"As part of the culture of our people, religion voplotila a system of moral values have evolved over millennia and which form the basis of a powerful spiritual rod, which caused the nation's vitality, its perennial openness and good progress" - Berdymuhamedov said in Turkmen press.
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