(Reuters) - Myanmar's powerful Buddhist monks' association urged the military junta to end violence against protesters and accused an "armed minority" of torture and killings of innocent civilians ...

YANGON, Myanmar – A decision by Myanmar's military regime to allow Buddhist monks to march passed the home of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi should not be seen as a sign the junta is ...

YANGON (Reuters) - An ultra-nationalist Buddhist creed is becoming more visible in Myanmar's commercial capital, Yangon, after monks from the apartheid-like movement helped stoke a wave of anti-Muslim ...

Religious tensions are on the rise again in Myanmar, after masked assailants attacked young Muslims and nationalists led by Buddhist monks set up protest camps in major cities this week. While the ...

Phyo Min Thei, the chief minister of Myanmar’s Yangon City, made a daring statement last week when he declared that the radical Buddhist nationalist group Ma-Ba-Tha (Association of Race and Religion ...

YANGON, Myanmar – He’s been described as the “Buddhist bin Laden,” but Ashin Wirathu thinks he has more in common with the world’s most famous fictional spy. “James Bond is a nationalist,” the monk ...

Families wait outside Yangon's Insein prison as Myanmar's junta releases over 7,000 people to mark Buddhist Lent. Buses carry released prisoners and leave the prison premises. Myanmar reduced ousted ...

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 ...

Min Aung Hlaing, under pressure over Rohingya abuses, is visiting non-Buddhist sites, but not everyone believes he is sincere Myanmar's commander-in-chief Gen. Min Aung Hlaing leaves after his visit ...