A raging Bronx fire left two men dead Wednesday morning and heavily damaged a Buddhist temple next door, FDNY officials said.

An inferno tore through a Buddhist temple complex in the Bronx early Wednesday morning, killing a monk and a visitor as Big ...

A monk in the Mekong Delta's An Giang Province was accused of sexually abusing one girl and three boys while he was the vice ...

China's coercive and violently assimilationist policies towards its religious and racial minorities are not unknown. Despite the regular condemnation that it receives from the international community ...

During the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the U.S. resettled 100,034 refugees, the highest number in 30 years. The most ...

What ultimate wisdom rises up through this story of Grace, and how can she inform us as we walk, rush, and linger through ...

On Tuesday evening, the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, was filled with excitement as 32 teams gathered for the ...

Nirvana Day is an annual Buddhist festival that remembers the death of the Buddha when he reached Nirvana at the age of 80. Nirvana is believed to be the end of the cycle of death and rebirth.

Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past week.