Human rights groups in Malaysia have called on the Muslim-majority country's government to recognize refugees, mostly ethnic ...

In Mandalay, Myanmar ’s second largest city, about 24 kilometers from Sagaing, churches became refugee centers for Buddhists and Muslims for weeks. The quake seriously damaged several churches, ...

Buddhism is the only major religion that declined in number globally between 2010 and 2020, ... Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar and Sri Lanka – have Buddhist majorities. Elsewhere, Buddhists form ...

Catholics in civil war-hit Myanmar have expressed gratitude to Pope Leo XIV for his call to peace in the Southeast Asian ...

The U.N. envoy to Myanmar is warning that the Southeast Asian country is on “a path to self-destruction” if the violence ...

Dozens of ancient Buddhist statues were buried after being damaged by an earthquake in Myanmar. Residents experienced a powerful 7.7 magnitude tremor that shattered religious sculptures at the ...

Myanmar has been a textbook case of the tragedies of socialism. While people are familiar with Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who tried to lead the ...

According to the latest data from the Pew Research Center, Buddhism is the only religion to have fewer believers in 2020 than in 2010, a drop of 18.6 million, largely due to a low birth rate in predom ...

YANGON—Myanmar’s deposed democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi marked her 80th birthday in junta detention on Thursday, serving ...

While Suu Kyi remains hugely popular in the majority Buddhist country, her status as a democracy icon abroad collapsed before the military takeover after she defended generals in their crackdown ...