Myanmar News News Myanmar » Religion: Earthquake compounds Myanmar's humanitarian crisis as the death toll passes 2,000
BANGKOK (AP) — Some 700 Muslim worshipers attending Friday prayers were killed when mosques collapsed, said a member of the steering committee of the Spring Revolution Myanmar Muslim Network. BANGKOK ...
News Myanmar » Religion: Monk’s Funeral Highlights Myanmar Army’s Delicate Relationship to Buddhist Clergy
The 78-year-old monk Bhaddanta Munindarbhivamsa was shot dead by soldiers this month. The military initially tried to pin it on anti-regime forces. Hundreds of people attended the funeral on Thursday ...
News Myanmar » Religion: Myanmar Catholics pleased to welcome first local cardinal
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News Myanmar » Religion: Churches, temples and monasteries regularly hit by airstrikes in Myanmar, activists say
BANGKOK (AP) — The 10 reported attacks on churches in the western state of Chin examined by the researchers are part of a broader assault on religious communities across the war-torn nation, other ...
News Myanmar » Religion: Dutch tourist detained for 'insulting religion' in Myanmar
A 30-year-old Dutch tourist has landed in trouble for "insulting religion" in Myanmar after he pulled the plug on a speaker that was being used for a late-night Buddhist sermon. Police arrested Klass ...
News Myanmar » Religion: Religion: Baptists in Burma
Tales of Baptist missionary courage began coming out of war-harried Burma last week. > Tall, angular Brayton C. Case has stuck to his post at the repeatedly bombed agricultural school at Pyinmana near ...