These Christian ethnic minorities live in a unique context: In Myanmar, Buddhism is the state religion, and Buddhists make up 90 percent of the population. Most of the country’s elite ...

The incident occurred as residents of Aing Ma, a village about 25 miles northwest of the junta-controlled town of Pale, were ...

Facebook Pauk Ko Taw is pictured here in a file photo with members of the pro-junta Democratic Karen Buddhist Army militia The nexus between the military and monkhood is nothing new. Burmese monks ...

Myanmar – Scattered across the lush, rolling hills of southern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region, rebel fighters stationed at checkpoints inspect cars and trucks traveling towards a nearby town ...

Two men have taken most of the turns at the helm of Burma ever since the nation became independent in 1948: gentle, popular U Nu, the kerchiefed, sometime Buddhist monk who became Burma’s ...

And Saturdays are for Buddhists in this resistance group to pray. The CDF-KKG is fighting Myanmar's military junta, which has been losing ground across the country in recent months to an offensive ...

These are members of the little-known “Muslim Company”, who have joined the struggle for democracy in Myanmar as part of a Christian- and Buddhist-dominated armed group – the Karen National Union (KNU ...