Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 11 / Trend , A.Huseyinbala /
Azerbaijan prevented the import of 59 books promoting religious intolerance and discrimination in 2008.
"There were 102 religious communities and 533 religious organizations registered in Azerbaijan in 2008," the State Committee on Working with State Organizations reported to Trend .
In 2008, 101 Islamic religious communities were registered in Azerbaijan.
The Kubar non-Islamic religious community was also registered in Sumgayit.
"The import of negative religious literature decreased in Azerbaijan in recent years," the committee said.
Meetings were held with leading religious publication centers to prevent the distribution of harmful religious literature in the country.
"We enhanced control over the religious situation in Azerbaijan. The activities of illegal religious communities were prevented. We created the Youth Information Fund to allow students to receive religious education abroad," the committee said.
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