Islam is the state religion in Malaysia and Brunei ... The islands of maritime Southeast Asia can range from the very large (for instance, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Luzon) to tiny pinpoints on the map ...

Across South and Southeast Asia, countries have very different religious makeups, yet there are commonalities in how they practice and think about religion, according to a new Pew Research Center ...

How we did this This analysis is drawn from the Pew Research Center report “Buddhism, Islam and Religious Pluralism in South and Southeast Asia.” For that report, we surveyed 13,122 adults across six ...

The global growth of Islam, and the rise of extremism across religions, also made this ... Francis arrived at Istiqlal Mosque, the largest in Southeast Asia, in the morning, driving past streets ...

A week or so ago, the Pew Research Center published a survey on “religious nationalism.” It is an unwieldy term, as the researchers admitted, but Pew did its best to simplify it. In the ...

Yet the country has the region’s highest rate of conversions—including to Christianity—according to a special Pew Research Center study on religion in South and Southeast Asia released today.

the second leg of a marathon 12-day visit of four countries in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific which also includes East Timor and Singapore. Religious plurality Indonesia is a symbolically ...