Kazakhstan

Today, Central Asia is an "island of stability" in an unstable world. Friendship and peace exist there among people from different backgrounds.

The traditional vin d'honneur reception took place at Jerusalem's King David hotel, with new ambassadors meeting their colleagues from other countries.

HIT's Seminar reflects its vision to serve as a bridge between cultures and peoples, and as a vehicle to build new bridges between nations and religions.

Hamas’s charter not only calls for the destruction of Israel but for the destruction of the Jewish people, the eradication of Judaism.

“My dream is to be an engineer, work in my field in an exciting company that is bringing positive change to this world, and start a family. Israel is where my present and future come together.”

To build a new system of international security, the world requires a new global movement for peace. I believe the role of religious leaders will be indispensable here.

The record of close calls over the decades shows just how near the world was to a nuclear catastrophe. The time to eliminate the man-made threat of nuclear weapons is now.

Nikita Kislitsin, an employee of Russian cybersecurity firm F.A.C.C.T., was detained on June 22 and Kazakh authorities are considering Washington's extradition request.

The event was an offshoot of the Congress of World and Traditional Religions first held in 2003 in Astana, Kazakhstan.

It was assumed that the US leaving Afghanistan would mean that Central Asian countries would assume they have been abandoned to the Russia-China anaconda, but that may be changing.