Hundreds of people attended the funeral on Thursday of a senior monk who was fatally shot by Myanmar soldiers.

MEIKTILA, Myanmar (Reuters) - When religious violence erupted in Meiktila in central Myanmar two years ago, local politician Win Htein spoke up for the minority Muslims who bore its deadly brunt. Many ...

“While Waso is not a Christian liturgical season, its core spiritual values provide a meaningful bridge for interreligious encounter and mutual understanding.” Six Pillars of Shared Faith and ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Brightly dressed boys and girls mounted on horses and carts, accompanied by their guardians, make their way to a Buddhist monastery in southern Myanmar, as they prepare to enter ...

A paramotor attack during a festival and protest in central Myanmar has left at least 40 people dead and 47 others injured, according to a spokesperson from the exiled National Unity Government ...

LONDON -- The military junta in Myanmar dropped at least one bomb from a paraglider, killing at least 18 people and injuring another 45, some of them seriously, at a vigil protesting military rule, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A General view of the site of a building that collapses following an earthquake in Bangkok. Rescuers found no survivors in the ...

An American Buddhist Anarchist wrote an article about how Buddhism can be appropriated by anarchist views. The tagline of the website "No Selves No Masters" says "If Buddhism is to possess social ...

Armed police secure the compound of Ekayana Buddhist Centre in Jakarta in the early morning of Aug. 5, 2013, hours after a bombing attack hit the temple in the evening of Aug. 4ROMEO GACAD / AFP / ...

BANGKOK (AP) — The military-controlled government of strife-torn Myanmar on Friday showed off a new giant statue of a sitting Buddha that is scheduled to be consecrated on Aug. 1, a powerful symbol of ...

YANGON (Reuters) - A government-appointed body that oversees Myanmar's Buddhist monkhood has issued a directive intended to check the influence of a monk-led movement accused of stoking violence ...

BANGKOK — An airstrike on a Buddhist monastery in Myanmar 's central Sagaing region killed at least 23 people who were taking shelter in the compound, separate sources said Friday. The overnight ...