Born of Buddhist parents and raised in a Buddhist environment, I grew up as a typical Myanmar Buddhist girl. Under the care of my grandmother, it was hammered into my brain that we should worship and ...

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

More than 20,000 people led by Buddhist monks have staged the biggest demonstration against Burma’s military regime in almost 20 years. For the first time since the protests began last month, Buddhist ...

As a mother superior working in Myanmar's Kayin State, Sister Deborah Ann's daily routine involves managing a nursery school, looking after girls from a boarding school, helping to arrange meals, ...

When Aung San Suu Kyi won the elections in Myanmar in 2015 – the first openly contested vote in the country after decades of oppression – I was on the street outside her party’s headquarters. I’ve ...

In a Feb. 3 statement, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Yangon asked the military to release “the voice of our people” Aung San Suu Kyi, and called the coup “shocking.” Catholic nuns join protests and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Brightly dressed boys and girls mounted on horses and carts, accompanied by their guardians, make their way to a Buddhist monastery in southern Myanmar, as they prepare to enter ...

For much of late September, the road to the eastern gateway of Rangoon’s revered Shwedagon pagoda was a sea of maroon and saffron robes, as hundreds of Buddhist monks gathered to march in protest ...