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