upreme Mufti and head of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Kyrgyzstan Maksatbek Toktomushev has issued a fatwa banning a religious wedding with minors under 18.
The press service of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Kyrgyzstan reported on Friday that the fatwa, or decree, applies to all the priests of regions and cities, as well as teachers of religious schools.
In late November President Almazbek Atambayev, signed a law banning the religious marriage rites without official registration of a marriage in the registry office.
Report says the religious consecration of marriage with minors is punishable with imprisonment of three to five years. According to official data, 15 per cent of women in Kyrgyzstan are married before the legal age.
Currently, there are about 2,700 mosques in the republic and 67 madrasas.
The religious marriage rite called “nikah” is the actual entry into marriage in Islam.
Meanwhile in 1960s less than half the population of Kyrgyzstan practised Islam, in connection with the relatively high natural growth among the Asian people.However at present the population of Muslims in the country is approaching 90 per cent.
NAN
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