Bangladesh News News Bangladesh » Religion: Bangladesh's Hindu-Buddhist-Christian council pushes for secular state
(RNS) — Amid a government shake-up and rising violence against minorities, an interfaith council is pushing for the country to remove Islam as the state religion. DHAKA, Bangladesh (RNS) — Amid a ...
News Bangladesh » Religion: Women and religion in Bangladesh: new paths
These articles are part of a collaboration between openDemocracy and the research consortium Pathways of Women's Empowerment, project of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.
News Bangladesh » Religion: Hindus in Bangladesh celebrate their largest festival under tight security following attacks
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Schoolteacher Supriya Sarker is glad to celebrate Bangladesh’s largest Hindu festival of Durga Puja but feels the festivities would be more jubilant without the fear and ...
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: Attacks on Sufis and Their Shrines are Growing in Bangladesh
The Jamaat-e-Islami and affiliated groups are attacking Bangladesh’s long tradition of cultural and social pluralism.
News Bangladesh » Religion: Why Are Muslims Turning on Muslims in Bangladesh?
The Muslim community is not monolithic, but people of different sects lived peacefully, side by side. That has changed over the past year. Since the fall of the Awami League (AL) government in ...
News Bangladesh » Religion: Neo-Liberalism Meets Religious Extremism: Bangladesh’s Fragile Future
Following Sheikh Hasina’s removal from the position of Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus assumed leadership of a non-partisan interim government. His strategy for political survival ...
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: Bangladesh’s Gen Z ‘revolution’ shouldn’t come through religious violence
Many in Western policy circles have applauded the “Gen Z” student protest movement that marked the end of Sheikh Hasina’s era in Bangladesh and paved the way for the ascent of octogenarian and Nobel ...
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: Bangladeshi religious leader buried after violent protests
An estimated 50,000 people have attended the funeral of an influential religious leader in Bangladesh whose death in prison triggered mass protests. Delwar Hossain Sayedee, 83, was sentenced to death ...