By Hannah Beech, Dharisha Bastians and Kai Schultz | The New York Times JAKARTA, Indonesia — The deadly attacks in Sri Lanka on Sunday highlighted how easily religious coexistence can be ripped apart in a region where secularism is weakening ... Full Article

By Associated Free Press PARIS: Religious freedom is under threat in one of every five nations around the globe, in part because of an increase in “aggressive ultranationalism”, a Catholic NGO said in a report Thursday (Nov 22). Aid ... Full Article

By Joshua Carroll | Al Jazeera Yangon, Myanmar – Abdul fled his burning home last August amid a frenzy of screams, smoke and gunfire. As soldiers from Myanmar’s army shot people down at his village in northern Rakhine state, he saw ... Full Article

By USCIRF WASHINGTON, DC — Responding to the recent announcement by the governments of Burma and Bangladesh that repatriation efforts for Rohingya Muslim refugees will begin next month, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom ... Full Article

By Mark Inkey | The Diplomat Rohingya refugees caught returning to Myanmar from Bangladesh were forced to tell the press they returned voluntarily and were well treated, when in reality they were so terrorized they later fled back to Bangladesh. ... Full Article

By Daniel Ten Kate and Sophie Kamaruddin | Bloomberg Anwar Ibrahim, who’s in line to become Malaysia’s next premier, blasted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s treatment of the Rohingya and called for formal talks on China’s crackdown ... Full Article

By Zeba Siddiqui and Antoni Slodkowski | Reuters BALUKHALI REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (Reuters) – Hamida Begum fled her home in Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh about two months ago with her husband, two-year-old son, and three-month-old ... Full Article

By Todd Pitman | Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s army was not the only group that slaughtered civilians in the country’s volatile west last year, Amnesty International said in a new report accusing ethnic Rohingya insurgents of ... Full Article

Ottawa, ON – Conservative Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Human Rights and Religious Freedom, David Anderson, and the Conservative National Caucus Chair, David Sweet, today released the following statement in response to Bob Rae’s Rohingya ... Full Article

By Associated Press | CBC News Satellite imagery shows that Rohingya villages in Myanmar continued to be destroyed even as Myanmar and Bangladesh signed an agreement last month to return refugees from the ethnic Muslim minority who had fled ... Full Article

By Thu Thu Aung | Reuters Pope Francis on Tuesday urged the leaders of majority-Buddhist Myanmar, mired in a crisis over the fate of Muslim Rohingya people, to commit themselves to justice, human rights and respect for “each ethnic group and ... Full Article

By Navine Murshid | Washington Post Why is Burma attacking only the Rohingya? As the Burmese military drives out upward of 600,000 Rohingya in what one United Nations official called “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing,” most media ... Full Article

By Morning Star News Two assistant pastors arrested by the Burma (Myanmar) army last December were sentenced to prison on Friday (Oct. 27) on false charges of unlawful association, defaming the military and spying, sources said. Pastor Dom Dawng ... Full Article

By Kyaw Soe Oo | Reuters MYEBON, Myanmar (Reuters) – Buddhist villagers in relatively peaceful parts of Myanmar’s Rakhine state are enforcing a system of local apartheid that punishes people trading with minority Muslims, fuelling fears ... Full Article

On September 28, 2017, the New York Times published an op-ed by the steering group of the International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief (IPPFoRB): To the Editor: As members of parliaments and members of the Steering ... Full Article

By Human Rights Watch (New York) – Burmese security forces have laid landmines during attacks on villages and along the Bangladesh border, posing a grave risk to Rohingya Muslims fleeing atrocities, Human Rights Watch said today. The Burmese ... Full Article

By BBC News The Myanmar authorities have accused Muslim Rohingya militants of killing 28 Hindu villagers whose bodies were allegedly found in a mass grave. The army says the bodies of 20 women and eight men and boys were found in two pits in ... Full Article

By Shoon Naing | Reuters YANGON (Reuters) – Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims have been blockaded inside their area by their Buddhist neighbors in a western Myanmar village, residents say, as religious tensions in troubled Rakhine state spread ... Full Article

By Kyaw Ye Lynn | Anadolu Agency Muslim residents in Myanmar’s largest city Wednesday protested the closure of their two religious schools as they have fewer place for worship in the month of Ramadan — the ninth and holiest month of the ... Full Article

By Poppy McPherson | The Guardian Myanmar must do more to prevent the drastic escalation of religious intolerance and violence following clashes between ultranationalist Buddhists and minority Muslims in Yangon, a senior United Nations envoy has ... Full Article