Father Tito Banchong Thopanhong, Apostolic Administrator of Luang Prabang, who endured imprisonment and hardship to serve his ...

A rare legal effort to secure rights for atheists and nonbelievers was quashed last month by Indonesia's Constitutional Court, which ruled that a citizen must profess a faith, even a minority one, on ...

In Indonesia, it is legally required to specify a religion on official documents. Non-believers say they are being discriminated.

The mainland (Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam ... and the new nation of East Timor (formerly part of Indonesia). Islam is the state religion in Malaysia and Brunei. Although 85 percent ...

"Any form of coercion impairing the freedom to have and manifest one's religion/belief of choice is condemned ... The population of Laos, a communist country, is 57 percent Buddhist and 34.7 percent ...

"North Korea often says Christianity is an American religion ... Hindu-majority India, Buddhist-majority Myanmar and communist one-party states China, Laos and Vietnam. Indonesia and Malaysia ...

Walking 2,700 kilometres barefoot might not be everyone’s idea of a spiritual journey, but for Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích ... taken him through Vietnam, Laos and Thailand, where he arrived ...

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles on Thursday told parliament the government of Laos is yet to take up Australian Federal Police support in the investigation into the deaths of six foreign ...

Large shares in many middle-income countries say following the historically predominant religion is key to "true" national ...

The word Ahimsa, derived from Sanskrit, means non-harm or non-injury and is often translated into English as non-violence. The dictionary defines it as “the ethical principle of not causing harm to ...