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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia has banned the forced conversion of children to Islam to quell unease among religious minorities in the mainly Muslim nation, the country's Legal Affairs Minister ...

Islam is the official religion in Malaysia, and Malay-Muslims make up over two-thirds of the country's 34 million people - Copyright AFP/File Mohd RASFAN Islam is the ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The court said that the state could not make Islamic laws on those topics because they are covered by Malaysian federal law. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s top ...

(The Conversation) — Religion and nationalism were once ideologies at odds. Now, they are increasingly bedfellows, with populism often the glue. (The Conversation) — I hadn’t expected my book tour in ...

The populations of Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Thailand each have large religious majorities, with at least seven-in-ten adults being Buddhist or Muslim. In some of these countries, ...

(Reuters) - Malaysia's best-known Christian convert, Lina Joy, lost her six-year battle to have "Islam" removed from her national identity card on Wednesday. Here are five facts on the case and ...

Muslim groups decried Hannah Yeoh’s memoir, in which she details her faith journey. Malaysia cabinet minister Hannah Yeoh won a defamation case in late May against university lecturer Kamarul Zaman ...

Malaysia’s government has announced a tougher approach toward unauthorised houses of worship—an intervention that has quickly become a national flashpoint in a country where religion is closely tied ...

(CNN) — Religious authorities in Malaysia have stepped up moral policing efforts during the holy month of Ramadan in what critics warn has been part of a wider recent shift toward a more conservative ...