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 / ...

"In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Buddhist mobs on motorbikes drove through Myanmar’s historic city of Mandalay in a second night of attacks on minority Muslims that left two people dead, 14 injured and raised ...

Christianity reached Asia early and even gained ground in China and Japan, but it never became dominant because it faced powerful rival religions like Buddhism, Hinduism, and especially Islam. Unlike ...

MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (Reuters) - The Buddhist monk grabbed a young Muslim girl and put a knife to her neck. "If you follow us, I'll kill her," the monk taunted police, according to a witness, as a ...

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Hundreds of Muslims in Bangladesh burned at least four Buddhist temples and 15 homes of Buddhists on Sunday after complaining that a Buddhist man had insulted Islam ...

A court in Sri Lanka has sentenced an influential Buddhist monk to four years in jail after convicting him of defaming Islam with his public comments seven years ago. The Colombo High Court on March ...

Cambodia hosted a summit on Islam and Buddhism, the first such inter-religious program held in the Buddhist-majority nation to promote ethnic and religious harmony. The day-long summit, organized by ...

Historic cemeteries abound from neighborhood to neighborhood, headstones rising out of dry clean-cut grass. One, however, sits about 15 minutes outside of city limits, at the intersection of Jackson ...

"The monks tried to stop the ceremony without saying what we had done wrong... Why aren't authorities taking action?" Myanmar Muslim devotees depart a private meeting hall after hardline Buddhist ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Anti-Muslim mobs rampaged through three more towns in Myanmar's predominantly Buddhist heartland over the weekend, destroying mosques and burning dozens of homes despite ...

A scene from Midwives: A baby whose face is adorned with thanaka — a kind of sunscreen made from wood bark. The prestigious Sundance festival just gave one of its big awards to Midwives, a film about ...