Bangladesh News News Bangladesh » Religion: The Political Instrumentalization of Bangladesh’s Hindu Community
Rather than addressing the challenges faced by Hindus, political parties – particularly the Awami League – have a history of politicizing their struggles. A protest against attacks, vandalism, and ...
News Bangladesh » Religion: Bangladesh's Hindus need protection amid the country's political turmoil
(RNS) — After angry crowds closed in on the prime minister’s official residence in Dhaka on Monday (Aug. 5), forcing Bangladesh’s leader, Sheikh Hasina, to resign her office after 15 years and flee to ...
News Bangladesh » Religion: Bangladesh reaping what political leaders have been sowing: Taslima Nasreen
Bangladesh's exiled author Taslima Nasreen finds the current situation in her country of birth worsening through time, even compared to the day she was forced to leave over three decades ago. "I'd say ...
News Bangladesh » Religion: Minority leaders in Bangladesh launch massive protests over Hindu youth's arrest on trumped-up charges
Massive protests erupted in Dhaka following the controversial arrest of a Hindu man, Haridas Chandra Tarani Das, who was building an 81-foot Lord Ram statue. Minority leaders demanded his immediate ...
News Bangladesh » Religion: Religious minorities in Bangladesh under fire after fall of secular regime
Army soldiers keep guard in front of the President’s official residence during the oath taking ceremony of the interim government in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024. (Credit: Rajib Dhar/AP.) ...
News Bangladesh » Religion: Bangladesh court rejects scrapping Islam as state religion
Bangladesh’s high court on Monday rejected a petition by secular activists to scrap Islam as the state religion in the wake of nationwide protests by hardline Islamist groups. A special bench of three ...
News Bangladesh » Religion: Ram statue row raises fresh questions about religious freedom in Bangladesh
A sense of hope was earlier raised among the minority Hindus in Bangladesh that their interests and well-being would be protected by the new regime in Dhaka under Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, which ...
News Bangladesh » Religion: Bangladesh Army turns religious. Fidel Castro had warned Sheikh Mujib
The Bangladesh Army has raised a new unit with four companies named after the first four Islamic Caliphs — Umar, Abu Bakr, Ali, and Uthman.
News Bangladesh » Religion: Bangladesh: “Religion in Our Hearts and Secularism on Our Sleeves”
“Remember Bangladesh is a young country and it is fighting hard to retain the spirit of secularism despite a looming threat from radical elements within the society and outside. So when you are ...
News Bangladesh » Religion: Human Rights organisation appeals to recognise 'Bangladesh's 1971 genocide' at UN
Human Rights Without Frontiers is advocating for the formal international recognition of the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities as genocide. Learn how this recognition is being linked to the protection ...
News Bangladesh » Religion: Bangladesh religious minorities allege impunity for crimes
A rights group in Bangladesh accused the government on July 10 of overlooking more than 2,000 crimes committed against religious minorities in the country and excluding them from reforms. The ...
News Bangladesh » Religion: Stop killing in name of religion: Bangladesh PM
Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pleaded with Islamist extremists to stop killing in the name of religion Saturday after 20 hostages were killed in a siege at a Dhaka restaurant. “Islam is a ...