Across South and Southeast Asia, countries have very different religious makeups, yet there are commonalities in how they practice and think about religion, according to a new Pew Research Center ...

The peoples of the Silk Road in its early decades followed many different religions ... and especially in Persia and Central Asia, many people were adherents of Zoroastrianism, a religion founded by ...

Asia leads the world in religious diversity ... The region's religious diversity is nothing new. Different religions have long intermingled and traded. Waves of Indianisation and Sinicisation, not to ...

It is a crime against humanity and a serious offense against God. Manila (AsiaNews) – The Asian Conference of Religions for Peace (ARCP) held the International Conference of Women Empowerment ...

Christians in East Asia are more likely to have attended ... Many people across the region now claim a different religious identity from the one they were raised in. Pew researchers measured ...

Even today, they are different from other Muslims ... childhood and usually did have strong bonds to the religion, something Central Asia's current leaders cannot claim. The code has been copied ...

Buddhism, founded in the late 6th century B.C.E. by Siddhartha Gautama (the "Buddha"), is an important religion in most of the countries of Asia. Buddhism has assumed many different forms, but in each ...