APEX, N.C. (RNS) — Judging from the crowds who lined up for miles on the side of the road to greet them and hand them flowers, oranges and bottled water, the simple act of walking for peace sparked ...

Sonia Faleiro's new book, 'The Robe and the Sword,' explores the unsettling rise of Buddhist extremism in South Asia, ...

The Walk for Peace, a procession of venerable Buddhist monks making their way from Texas to Washington, D.C., arrived in ...

Pali stanza often recited at times of death. “Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honour of the ...

Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, was speaking at a political rally near a train station in the city of Nara ...

If you look at “never attending” people, they actually are more likely to say, “God exists, without any doubts,” than they ...

Catholics remain the largest religious group in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, while second-largest ...

The monks stopped at North Carolina's capitol ahead of the snow storm. Here's how to follow their journey.

Explore what percentage of adults in the six countries surveyed pray daily, attend religious services weekly or wear ...

MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — 'I don't think a year ago we could have fathomed how quickly and how dramatically this country would ...

When I described the satisfactions of my routine to Roshi Joan during one of our hikes, she smiled: “That’s the sacredness of ...

In the Buddhist tradition, the story of Kisa Gotami is famous worldwide. It serves to remind us that, despite the pain we ...