"No peace here, no peace back in Myanmar," said Sheel. "We should be taken to Hindustan, that's our land."

Advocates of interfaith harmony say a renaming of the hardline Buddhist nationalist group Ma Ba Tha, and plans to formally inject its ideology into Burma’s political sphere, will do little to staunch — and may even exacerbate — the underlying religious intolerance that the organisation has been accused of fomenting.

Jakarta’s Christian governor was found guilty of blasphemy against Islam and sentenced to two years in jail on Tuesday after a trial that was seen as a test of religious tolerance in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.

As extremists turn to social media to attack members of other religions, DVB speaks to people of different faiths in Myingyan, Mandalay Division, about their views.

A new film explores experiences of Burmese migration and relationships from an original Thai perspective.

The US State Department reports that government practices show that there exists apparent state-sanctioned religious discrimination and violence throughout the country.