Adults were asked how important religion is in their lives. Of the countries included in the surveys, Indonesia ranked first, with 98 percent of respondents saying religion was very important in ...

Historian Nazeer Ahmed claims that the people in present day Malaysia and Indonesia were “impressed by the honesty and ...

On March 14, UCA News reported Indonesia’s human rights minister, Natalius Pigai, calling for new legislation on religious freedom to replace the previous religious harmony law. However, no details ...

As he continues to promote religious harmony, Pope Francis visited Jakarta's Istiqlal Mosque, the largest mosque in Southeast Asia, on Thursday. Together with the country's Grand Imam and other ...

SINGAPORE — Pope Francis met with Nasaruddin Umar, the grand imam of Southeast Asia's largest mosque, on Thursday, in a meeting in Indonesia centered on fighting climate change and religious ...

This is not the first time that Indonesia has used blasphemy laws to put people behind bars. Although the country promotes itself as a bastion of tolerance in the Muslim world, religious ...

While praising Indonesia’s constitution, which guarantees religious freedom, Francis also warned in an address following a meeting with President Joko Widodo that the diversity of the world’s ...

Voters in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim democracy ... some 12 percent of the population belong to religious minorities: Christians, Shiites, Buddhists and Hindus, among others.