The three-day annual event will end on Sunday when hundreds of thousands of Muslims are expected to join final prayers like ...

Students from religious school vandalise venue set to host women’s match, a day after similar incident in another city.

While the Bangladeshi govt under Yunus cracks down harshly on opposition protests, citing a zero-tolerance policy for public ...

Tens of thousands of people have gathered on a riverbank near Bangladesh’s capital to listen to sermons by Islamic scholars ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s largest minority rights group accused the country’s interim government on Thursday of ...

Across 36 countries, most people say religion helps society and encourages tolerance. They're more divided on whether it promotes superstition.

We asked people in three dozen countries how they see religion's role in society, government and national identity.

Biswa Ijtema is one of the largest gatherings of Muslim devotees, held on the sandy banks of the Turag River in Tongi, just north of Dhaka, the capital. The event dates back to the 1950s when the ...