Reviving moderate religious ties seen as key to tackling Asia&#39;s ...
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JAKARTA : Reviving violence-weakened bonds between moderate clerics and followers of different faiths holds the key to crushing Asia&#39;s formidable network of extremist militants, regional leaders said Monday.
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Respect for religious freedom in Vietnam has improved but the communist nation continues to impose curbs on religious groups, the US State Department said in a report.
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Pope Benedict XVIÂs visit to Turkey in late November is likely to be a flash point for a surprisingly broad array of issues.
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Pope Benedict's highly sensitive visit to Turkey shifts focus toward Vatican relations with Orthodox Christianity on Thursday after his conciliatory words about Islam soothed tensions with Turkish Muslims.
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The world is often divided along national, racial and religious lines. But a leading social psychologist says those divisions donât necessarily have to result in conflict.
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In the European nation where religion and state have mingled most, disagreements are less bitter than in the U.S.
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Pope Benedict XVI faces a delicate balancing act in Turkey as he tries to improve Christian-Muslim ties.
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The Pope is to meet Muslim nations' envoys in an attempt to defuse a row between the Catholic Church and Islam.
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A survey released yesterday posits the idea that the United States -- already one of the most religious nations in the developed world -- may be even less secular than previously suspected.
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A group of world figures calls for efforts to heal the growing divide between Muslim and Western societies. Send us your views.
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With a religiously mixed population, aid efforts have meant reaching out across faith barriers.
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Muslim countries need to club together in a new initiative to resolve turbulence and violence in the Middle East, the leaders of Indonesia and Pakistan said on Wednesday.
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China&#39;s recent decision to cancel a military exercise, followed a few days later by a similar announcement from Taiwan, offered the first ray of hope in months that relations were on the mend.
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The debate highlights the often prickly interfaith relations in Asia's only majority-Catholic country.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair and his successor Gordon Brown will meet international Muslim leaders Monday at a conference aimed at developing understanding between religions.
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GEORGE TOWN, Malaysia  - The sweet smell of incense from a centuries-old Chinese temple, the perfume of a Hindu shrine decked in flowers and the call to Muslim prayer.
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Turkey is navigating between the forces pulling it closer to Islam and the institutions that safeguard its secularism.