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

Sculptor Aung Naing Lin has spent decades carving Buddha statues to help guide Myanmar's faithful -- but getting the marble ...

The U.N. Development Programs is warning that Myanmar’s Rakhine state, home to the Rohingya minority and engulfed in conflict ...

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 ...

Major Religions: Theravada Buddhism 87.9%, Christianity 6.2%, Islam 4.3%, Other 1.6% The first evidence of the Christian presence in Myanmar is traced to the 13th century -- Latin and Greek writings ...

Last week I wrote about the Rohingya, an ethnic group in Myanmar who have undergone intense persecution from both the ...

A large snake was found coiled on top of a gold pagoda at a Buddhist temple in Myanmar. The 15ft serpent was spotted by locals wrapped around the crown of the religious building in Kachin's Shwe ...

This is the dramatic moment a firework flew from a worshipper's hand as she posed at a Buddhist festival. The devotee was dressed to the nines in handmade silk for the Loy Krathong event in Sukhothai ...

Burmese Way to Socialism was not a syncretism between Marxism and Buddhism BSPP was secular, and not Buddhist in nature. U Nu, who the BSPP conducted the coup and attained the political power from, ...