Chinese authorities have recently dealt a blow to the major hub of Tibetan Buddhist learning by expelling more than 1,000 ...

Freedom of worship is tenuous around the globe. The Pew Research Center’s latest annual report found “high” or “very high” levels of government constraints on religion in 59 of the 198 countries and ...

Director of the Center for South Asian Studies Lalita du Perron interviews students, faculty and alumni for her podcast, offering an inside look at South Asian Studies at Stanford and beyond.

On the evening of January 7, a gunman fired two shots near a side entrance to the temple complex. Former Cambodian lawmaker Lim Kimya was murdered at point-blank range on Thanon Bowon Niwet as he ...

Traveling along the Tea Horse Road unlocks a land of teahouses, centuries-old monasteries, and epic valley views.

Petzold was one of the Mar Musa monks sent to Iraq to give life to the project, and he has been there ever since.

Thailand’s capital of culture mixes heritage with modernism, such a vibrant city also offers a wide array of hotels that will ...

Fr. Jens Petzold, a Swiss priest based in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, speaks to Vatican News about his work ...