Bangladesh will vote in general elections on January 7. International media coverage has focused on the Awami League (AL)’s slide toward authoritarian rule and doubts over whether elections held under ...

Bangladesh has descended into chaos following the shock departure of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday, with religious minorities targeted as riots spread throughout the country. "You people are ...

(RNS) — After angry crowds closed in on the prime minister’s official residence in Dhaka on Monday (Aug. 5), forcing Bangladesh’s leader, Sheikh Hasina, to resign her office after 15 years and flee to ...

Islamic extremism has been growing in Bangladesh since long before Sept. 11, 2001, and has produced deadly results mostly overlooked by the rest of the world, says a Bangladeshi Church worker and ...

Sister Tiziana Merletti, secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, visited Bangladesh Dec. 16–21, meeting with religious men and women across the ...

Since the fall of the Awami League (AL) government in Bangladesh on August 5, 2024, following a student-led mass uprising, religious violence has surged in the country. Attacks on religious minority ...

Army soldiers keep guard in front of the President’s official residence during the oath taking ceremony of the interim government in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024. (Credit: Rajib Dhar/AP.) ...

The newly formed government in Bangladesh, a densely populated South Asian nation, is set to take a landmark step toward ...

A rights group in Bangladesh accused the government on July 10 of overlooking more than 2,000 crimes committed against religious minorities in the country and excluding them from reforms. The ...

Many in Western policy circles have applauded the “Gen Z” student protest movement that marked the end of Sheikh Hasina’s era in Bangladesh and paved the way for the ascent of octogenarian and Nobel ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh – Catholics in Bangladesh are criticizing the Vatican’s recent Jubilee of Catechists because they feel that lay members were not given importance, and that only priests, sisters, and ...