Regional Interfaith Dialogue, Connecting and Cooperating for Peace and Harmony In the Asia-Pacific region
Indonesia took a much praised step toward religious tolerance last year by allowing its citizens to list native faiths beyond the six officially recognized religions on their identity cards.
Read more…Indonesians Fight to Keep Mystical Religion of Java Alive
China’s inroads in Nepal mean increasing control over Buddhist heritage sites – with implications for Tibet.
Read more…China Is Winning the War for Nepali Buddhism
Firefighters tackle the blaze as flames and smoke rise from Notre Dame Cathedral as it burns in Paris on April 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Read more…Notre Dame Cathedral: A place of worship, history, art
The United Nations Task Force on Engaging Faith-based Actors recently released its annual report.
Read more…Interview: UN Interagency Task Force on Religion
Dharamshala: The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, said on Monday it was possible that once he dies his incarnation could be found in India, where he has lived in exile for 60 years, and warned that any other successor named by China would not be respected.
Read more…Dalai Lama Says His Successor May Come From India, Sends Message to China
“That which is said by the Pope is taken very seriously not just by the Catholic community, but taken seriously by all of us,” says Lord Nicholas Henry Bourne of Aberystwyth, UK Minister for Faith.
Read more…Lord Bourne: That which is said by the Pope …
Climate change and conflict have left the river Jordan a stagnant stream and the Sea of Galilee critically low
Read more…Where Jesus once preached, the holy waters are draining away
NAKHON PATHOM, Thailand (Reuters) – Boodsabann Chanthawong recently joined a growing number of women defying generations of Thai Buddhist tradition by becoming ordained as novice monks at an unrecognized all-female monastery outside Bangkok.
Read more…Thailand’s rebel female Buddhist monks defy tradition
In Dhaka on November 27th-28th 2018, Religions for Peace Bangladesh sponsored an international seminar on World Peace through Interfaith and Intrafaith Dialogue in association with Religions for Peace Asia. It was attended by about 140 religious and interfaith leaders together with religious scholars and researchers from Bangladesh and international attendees from Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar and Sri Lanka.
Read more…Bangladesh: World Peace through Interfaith and Intrafaith Dialogue
Tropical rainforests are an irreplaceable gift. Not only do they exhibit nature in its most exquisite beauty, they are planetary life support systems that provide billions of people with food, shelter, livelihoods, medicine and clean water.
Read more…Harnessing the moral authority of the world’s religions to save rainforests