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The award given to Wirathu, a monk dubbed the 'Buddhist bin Laden', was presented by junta chief Min Aung Hlaing, the Myanmar military's information team said.
Nine Muslim ministers and two provincial governors have resigned after a divisive fast by a Buddhist monk and accusations that some of them were linked to Islamic militants.
Indonesia's Supreme Court has upheld a blasphemy conviction against a Buddhist woman who was arrested after complaining about the volume of her local mosque's call to prayer.
Many Rohingya have been seeking in recent weeks to leave by sea from Bangladesh, where they live in squalid refugee camps after fleeing their mostly Buddhist homeland Myanmar.
A 300-strong Buddhist mob in Rakhine's state capital Sittwe forced the ICRC to unload aid from a boat and prevented the vessel from leaving, local media reported on Thursday.
Israel’s ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip appears to have sparked a rise in anti-Palestinian rhetoric and incidences of Islamophobia in Thailand.
Pope Francis on Sunday asked Chinese Catholics to be 'good Christians and good citizens' during a visit to Mongolia.
The UN pleads for further international focus on Rohingya refugees amid crisis
UN rights chief Volker Türk said he was 'horrified' by the deadly airstrike, whose victims he said included schoolchildren performing dances, with the global body calling for those responsible to be brought to justice.
At least 22 people were killed after being shot at close range in central Myanmar, in what military critics say was a massacre of civilians conducted by the army.