Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BANGKOK (Reuters) - A new warrant has been issued for the arrest of an influential Thai Buddhist monk and Thailand's police chief ...

Around 300 monks from Thailand have embarked on a peace walk from Lumbini in Rupandehi district to Ramagram Stupa in Nawalparasi West district, aiming to spread the message of peace, compassion, and ...

BANGKOK — Catholics and Buddhists share should work together to advance the cause of mercy in the world, Pope Francis said Thursday during a historic meeting with the supreme Buddhist patriarch of ...

Tokyo, March 3 (ENInews)--The Tokyo-based Niwano Peace Foundation has announced it will award its 2011 Peace Prize to Sulak Sivaraksa, a Thai Buddhist leader. The foundation said the presentation ...

Makha Bucha Day 2026 is a Buddhist public holiday in Thailand. Here is what it means, how it is observed, and what closes.

NAKHON PATHOM, Thailand – On a rural road just after daybreak, villagers young and old kneel reverently before a single file of ochre-robed women, filling their bowls with rice, curries, fruits and ...

NAKHON PATHOM, Thailand, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Boodsabann Chanthawong recently joined a growing number of women defying generations of Thai Buddhist tradition by becoming ordained as novice monks at an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thailand's head of the National Office for Buddhism Pongporn Pramsaneh, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Bangkok, ...

A growing number of women are becoming ordained as novice Buddhist monks at an all-female monastery outside of Bangkok, Thailand. Novice monks have to adopt the Buddhist monastic code and undergo ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Under growing pressure from Thailand's military government, and their own religious bodies, Buddhist monks have launched a fresh round of reforms in recent weeks to clean up ...