Exiled activist and Buddhist master U Pyinya Zawta and two of his companions led meditation and Q-and-A sessions on Tuesday as part of a three-part program to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – A prominent Buddhist monk who was one of hundreds of political prisoners freed in Myanmar last month was released late Friday after being taken away before dawn by the ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – More than 100 monks in Myanmar demonstrated Friday at Bangladesh’s embassy to protest recent attacks against Buddhist temples and homes in Myanmar’s South Asian neighbor. The ...

Thai Buddhists have offered to help a network of hardline anti-Muslim Myanmar monks set up a radio station to spread their message across a nation where sectarian hatred is on the rise. More than a ...

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YANGON, Myanmar — About 20,000 protesters led by Buddhist monks and nuns on Sunday mounted the largest anti-government protest here since a failed 1988 democratic uprising, shouting support for jailed ...

KYI BUI KHAW, Myanmar -- The saffron-robed monks who spearheaded a bloody uprising last fall against Myanmar's military rulers are back on the front lines, this time providing food, shelter and ...

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's most prominent group of nationalist Buddhist monks on Monday condemned sedition charges against one of its leading members, Wirathu, ahead of a hearing in the fugitive ...

YANGON, Myanmar -- About 20,000 protesters led by Buddhist monks and nuns yesterday mounted the largest anti-government protest in Myanmar since a failed 1988 democratic uprising, shouting support for ...

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's hardline monks will dodge bans on Facebook and keep using it to "tell the truth", they said on Friday, after the social media giant barred several Buddhist nationalists ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dark-skinned and bearded men jump a young woman after she prays at a Buddhist shrine. They push her to the ground and rape her. Then they cut off her ear and slit her throat. A lurid ...

YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar's military government issued a threat Monday to the barefoot Buddhist monks who led 100,000 people marching in the strongest protests against the repressive regime in two ...