The vicious and systematic persecution of half a million Christians in Myanmar’s remote Chin state is one of the world’s most under-reported and forgotten human tragedies. The Chin people have been ...

BANGKOK (AP) — The 10 reported attacks on churches in the western state of Chin examined by the researchers are part of a broader assault on religious communities across the war-torn nation, other ...

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar’s Minister for Religion on Tuesday said Rohingya Muslim refugees living in neighboring Bangladesh are being "brainwashed" into "marching" on the Buddhist-majority nation, ...

BANGKOK — A prominent Christian church leader and human rights advocate from Myanmar’s Kachin ethnic minority was detained by the authorities just hours after he was released from prison under an ...

A funeral cortege of the late monk Bhaddanta Munindarbhivamsa moves in a street in Bago, Myanmar, Thursday, June 27, 2024. Hundreds of people attended the funeral on Thursday of a senior monk who was ...

A 30-year-old Dutch tourist has landed in trouble for "insulting religion" in Myanmar after he pulled the plug on a speaker that was being used for a late-night Buddhist sermon. Police arrested Klass ...

A Spanish tourist faces deportation from Myanmar over a Buddha leg tattoo that offended monks, police said Monday, in a country where the influence of religious hardliners is growing. The man was ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A campaign to enshrine Buddhism as Thailand's state religion has been galvanized by a radical Buddhist movement in neighbouring Myanmar that is accused of stoking religious tension ...

BANGKOK — The main organization coordinating resistance to Myanmar’s military government says its forces have arrested 10 members of a local resistance group suspected in the killing of a Catholic ...

BANGKOK (AP) — The Rev. Hkalam Samson was among the 3,300 prisoners released nationwide on Wednesday to mark the traditional Thingyan New Year holiday. BANGKOK (AP) — A prominent Christian church ...