Christians performed traditional animist dances with men wearing buffalo horns while women in colorful dresses offered flower ...

Metal hooks weighed down with milk pots skewered the flesh of men’s backs as tridents pierced their cheeks and tongues.

Forum 18, a site based in Norway, is one of the few media outlets specializing in coverage of religious freedom.

The Norwegian Church in Pattaya is currently hosting a confirmation camp for Norwegian youth from Thailand, Singapore, Australia, and Japan. The event brings together young confirmands for a week of ...

Here’s what mattered when an Irish American Muslim and a Black American Christian with a Muslim name met on a stage in ...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea -- A colonial construct of some 600 tribes occupying the eastern half of the largest island in Asia, Papua New Guinea is an almost mythical place where even the ...

Thailand remains an outlier in Asia in recognising marriage equality - only Nepal and Taiwan have legalised same-sex unions. It's one reason why Aki Uryu, who is Japanese, moved to Bangkok to be ...

so that the budget can be spent instead on a gathering of young people from the region – such was the effect of the young people’s participation in the Full Assembly of the Council of Churches of East ...

The city is still analyzing the new Trump administration’s rule lifting a years-old ban on federal immigration raids in “sensitive areas,” namely churches and schools, Adams said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Officers enforcing immigration laws will now be able to arrest migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches after the Trump administration threw out policies ...

SINGAPORE -- Southeast Asia's startup funding in 2024 dropped for the third consecutive year, falling to a fifth of the peak it recorded in 2021, with investors anticipating greater uncertainties ...

DHS said it would roll back a policy prohibiting arrests in "sensitive" areas. Federal immigration authorities will be permitted to target schools and churches after President Donald Trump revoked ...