By David Bolling Among the compelling excuses espoused by American policy makers and warmongers for the extraordinary cost in lives, treasure and domestic tranquility invested in the Vietnam War, was ...

Despite a migrant population of 700,000 — including 250,000 Vietnamese, who are largely Buddhists, followed by 240,000 ...

Southeast Asia is a region steeped in spiritual history and cultural richness, and nowhere is this more evident than in its ...

For Kashmir’s Shias, and now increasingly some Sunnis, the war in West Asia is not a remote spectacle. It is intimately ...

Taiwan’s international rating on freedom of religion is undisputedly very high. The 2021 Report on International Religious Freedom, published by the U.S. Department of State, also noted Taiwan’s const ...

YUEN FOONG KHONG is Li Ka Shing Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalization at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of ...

The Kailash Manasarovar pilgrimage has long served as a bellwether for the level of tensions between the world’s two most ...

In Southeast Asia, religious pluralism is shaped not by organic social consensus but by the influence of governments, dominant religious groups and nationalist ideologies.

The Contradictions of Religion and Politics in Southeast Asia The Pew Research Center’s recent survey on “religious nationalism” throws up as many questions as it answers.

MEIZHOU, Guangdong: Over 1,000 Taiwanese pilgrims flocked to southeast China's Fujian province this week for a religious festival, a rare instance of cross-strait cultural exchanges that threatens ...

JAKARTA - Pope Francis appealed for religious unity on Sept 5 as he addressed tens of thousands of people at a football stadium after meeting faith leaders at South-east Asia’s biggest mosque.

Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images On visit to Southeast Asia’s largest mosque, Pope says battling climate change and religious extremism a common cause ...