A fascinating new study shows how these seemingly contradictory practices might share more in common than anyone realized.

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A local resistance group fighting against the military government in Myanmar has acknowledged responsibility for the killing last week of a Buddhist monk and his disciple in the country’s eastern regi ...

The $45 million diversity-focused program has so far provided 400 Burmese students—including Christian ethnic minorities—a ...

The Texas Senate has passed a pair of bills to introduce religion in public schools. One would require the Ten Commandments ...

And so in Christian lore, we find a story uncannily similar to Buddha’s biography. King Abenner, who persecuted Christians, was told by astrologers that his own son would someday become a Christian.