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News Myanmar Religion: Myanmar religion minister says Rohingya 'brainwashed' to 'march' on the country

Published on: Monday 03 December 2018
Myanmar religion minister says Rohingya 'brainwashed' to 'march' on the country
News source: https://www.businessinsider.com/r-myanmar-religion-minister-says-rohingya-brainwashed-to-march-on-the-country-2018-12

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar’s Minister for Religion on Tuesday said Rohingya Muslim refugees living in neighboring Bangladesh are being "brainwashed" into "marching" on the Buddhist-majority nation, ...

News Myanmar Religion: New Myanmar filmmakers shoot to rekindle golden years

Published on: Thursday 06 June 2019
New Myanmar filmmakers shoot to rekindle golden years
News source: https://news.yahoo.com/myanmar-filmmakers-shoot-rekindle-golden-years-044938014.html

A deadly race to find hidden treasure, car chases and slick fight scenes drive the breakneck narrative of one of Myanmar's latest blockbusters, as a new generation of directors aim to revive the country's golden era of film. Myanmar's opening up since 2011 has so far done little to propel

News Myanmar Religion: Myanmar white roses offer Eid solidarity to Muslims

Published on: Tuesday 04 June 2019
Myanmar white roses offer Eid solidarity to Muslims
News source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/myanmar-white-roses-offer-eid-solidarity-to-muslims-11599188

(Photo: AFP/Sai Aung MAIN) About 3 to 4 per cent of Buddhist-majority Myanmar's population is Muslim although the religion traces its roots in the country back centuries. A brutal 2017 military ...

News Myanmar Religion: Myanmar shows mercy - but not to Rohingya: The Nation

Published on: Tuesday 14 May 2019
News source: https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/myanmar-shows-mercy-but-not-to-rohingya-the-nation

Myanmar's leaders turned a blind eye to the rising tide of religious persecution targeting all Muslims in the country, seeding the ground for the attack on Rakhine's Rohingya. ...

News Myanmar Religion: Sri Lankans in Myanmar engage in Bodhi Pooja in memory of terror attack victims

Published on: Wednesday 08 May 2019
News source: http://www.sundaytimes.lk/article/1087343/sri-lankans-in-myanmar-engage-in-bodhi-pooja-in-memory-of-terror-attack-victims

The Sri Lankan Embassy in Yangon, Myanmar together with the Sri Lankan community in Myanmar organised a special religious ceremony in rememberance of the victims of Easter Sunday terror attacks. A ...

News Myanmar Religion: Protecting Faith in a World Filled with Religious Persecution and Repression

Published on: Monday 13 May 2019
News source: https://spectator.org/protecting-faith-in-a-world-filled-with-religious-persecution-and-repression/

Despite exposure of these crimes, “Burma’s military and nonstate actors continued to target with discrimination and violence” religious minorities. North Korea imprisons up to 50,000 ...