The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which was passed by Lok Sabha yesterday, will be tabled in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, sources said. The Bill, which seeks to give citizenship to refugees from the Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Zorastrian communities fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh was passed in Lok Sabha on Monday.

Citizenship (Amendment) Bill to be tabled in Rajya Sabha tomorrow

Pope Francis Kicks Off Asia Tour In Thailand, Visits Supreme Buddhist Patriarch.

Gravitas: Pope Francis on Asian tour

Pope Francis was set to meet Thailand's supreme Buddhist patriarch, prime minister and king at the start of an official visit on Thursday, before celebrating a mass with tens of thousands of Thai Catholics.

Pope Francis to meet Thai king, Buddhist patriarch today

Like assembling a 1,500-year-old jigsaw puzzle, conservators at the National Museum of Afghanistan are restoring the country's Buddhist history that the Taliban tried to erase.

Afghan museum recreates Buddhist history, one broken piece at a time

Sri Lanka Friday ordered an investigation following the collapse of a skeletal 70-year-old elephant after being forced to parade at a high-profile Buddhist pageant popular with local and foreign tourists.

Sri Lanka probes elephant cruelty at Buddhist parade

Hundreds of supporters of Myanmar nationalist monk Wirathu protested at the country`s most sacred Buddhist pagoda on Thursday against a warrant issued for his arrest to face sedition charges.

Hardline Myanmar monk's supporters protest arrest warrant

Sri Lanka's president marked the 10th anniversary of the end of a protracted war with Tamil rebels Sunday by vowing to crush terrorist responsible for Easter bombings that killed 258 people.

Sri Lanka president Maithripala Sirisena vows to eliminate terrorism threat

The Central Intelligence Bureau (IB) has issued an alert, warning of a fidayeen attack by Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) or Islamic State (IS) on the occasion of Buddha Purnima at West Bengal or Bangladesh, according to the sources in Intelligence Bureau.

IB issues alert of fidayeen attack on Buddha Purnima in West Bengal, Bangladesh; security beefs up

The giant portraits erected in plazas and on street corners across Thailand usually show him as a younger man, clad in a fitted military uniform, his face unlined and hair jet-black.

Thailand king to Be formally crowned in an Ornate Spectacle after 69 years

The main Buddhist temple in the capital of South Korea on Monday inaugurated a ceremony to initiate child monks into the order for a weeks long training session in honor of the Buddha’s upcoming birthday on May 12.

Temple in South Korea initiates child monks ahead of Buddha’s birthday

Gun-toting Bangkok residents and tourists wreaked havoc on the streets of the capital on Saturday, spraying each other with massive water guns to celebrate "Songkran" or Thai new year.

Bangkok is drenched as residents and tourists celebrate the Thai new year

It may have been six decades since the Dalai Lama fled into exile, but in the isolated mountain hamlet where he was born, he remains very much on the minds of devotees and Chinese authorities alike.

After 60 years in exile, Dalai Lama's still remembered in his homeland

Sri Lanka's police seized a haul of high explosives stashed near a wildlife sanctuary following the arrest of four men from a newly formed radical Muslim group, officials said Friday.

Sri Lanka seizes explosives from local Islamist radicals

An ultra-nationalist monk -- dubbed the "Buddhist Bin Laden" -- on Sunday condemned the international community for their calls to bring Myanmar's generals to justice over the Rohingya crisis.

Rohingya crisis: Firebrand monk Wirathu hits back at UN, international community

Amnesty said masked Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army fighters killed as many as 99 Hindus near a remote Myanmarese village named Kha Maung Seik

Rohingya militants killed Hindu villagers in Myanmar: Amnesty International

He was arrested in November over a rally he held outside the US Embassy in Yangon in April 2016 to protest against America`s use of the word "Rohingya"

Ultra-nationalist Myanmar monk walks free from prison

WION Evening News Brief, March 6, 2018

Action will be taken against 10 members of Myanmar`s security forces in connection with the killing of captured Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state

Myanmar says soldiers, police facing action over village killings

Some 300 members of the Muslim minority have settled in Bradford in recent years under a refugee programme and they are desperate to draw international attention to the plight of their brethren

'I would be dead': Britain's Rohingyas speak out

Justice Minister Rajapakshe was accused of violating collective responsibility at the United National Party (UNP) working committee meeting held last week

Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena asked to sack down Justice Minsiter.

The 34th Kalachakra ritual in the holy city of Gaya in India's eastern Bihar province has been impacted by the government's shocking move

Demonetisation: Cash crunch disrupts Buddhist ceremony

In the past two weeks, Buddhist mobs have ransacked two mosques in separate towns

Five arrested in Myanmar for burning down mosque

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