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 ...

South Asia is not only the home to an amazing variety of different religions and cults, it is also the birthplace of religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism to name just the largest.

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 ...

SINGAPORE: Singaporeans have come out tops in Southeast Asia for being most likely to see different faiths as compatible with their country’s culture and values, as a measure of religious tolerance.

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 ...

Meanwhile, Muslims in Southeast Asia similarly see Islam as intrinsically ... And while 9 percent of Singaporeans who were raised in a different religion or no religion now identify as Christian ...

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 ...

shrines – here in Asia, but also in Europe and the Americas – are increasingly places where religions may coexist in a very direct fashion. This is because shrines are chosen as places that may foster ...