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Hindus were the largest religious group in the Asia-Pacific region as of 2010, with about 1 billion adherents. While the number of Hindus is expected to grow to nearly 1.4 billion by 2050, Muslims are ...

Sri Lanka Bombing Maps: What We Know About the Attack ... Easter Sunday highlighted the vulnerability of Christians in Asia, where religious minorities of many faiths have been battered by this ...

Seeking students to examine the ways in which religious texts and scholars circulated across Asia, assembling materials to be employed in a future graduate seminar on the history of translation in ...

Rohingya, the stateless people of Southeast Asia, are facing religious discrimination too in west Myanmar. Religious conflicts can sometimes lead to protracted wars. Since the 1970s, for example ...

Islam has been the dominant religion in Central Asia for nearly 1,300 years. For about three-quarters of the last 100 years, Islam -- and religion in general -- was essentially outlawed in Central ...

The course has as its theme "Religion and Politics in Asia Today", starting this Jan. 13 and ending Apr. 6. The weekly seminar, which is open to the public, will offer a deepening of knowledge on ...

Muslims living in the Asia-Pacific region, which includes 61 countries and territories, constitute 62% of all Muslims worldwide. The six Asian countries with the largest Muslim populations are: ...