Bangladesh’s founding father and first President Sheikh Mujibur Rehman and his family — the current prime minister Sheikh Hasina is his daughter — may have publicly championed religious ...

Bangladesh considering dropping Islam as state religion, according to senior minister "The force of secularism is within the people of Bangladesh.

But religious minority leaders say they face discrimination and many hurdles to practice their faith freely. Last September, the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council launched a hunger ...

A Hindu woman’s gang-rape in central Bangladesh, which was filmed and widely shared online, has sparked nationwide protests ...

KOLKATA — The rejection Monday by Bangladesh’s High Court of a 28-year-old petition in which some secular activists sought to scrap Islam as the state religion of the country has sparked mixed ...

The recent wave of religious intolerance began in 2013, when militants brutally killed an atheist blogger. More recently, the victims have included foreigners, Shiites, liberal Muslims and members ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh – Thousands of Muslims have rallied in Bangladesh's capital to denounce a court petition seeking to remove Islam as the country's official state religion. About 3,000 Muslims ...

Last week, Bangladesh began a nationwide crackdown, arresting 8,000 people, including at least 119 suspected Islamist radicals. Hasina said that none of the criminals involved in the slayings will ...

Bangladesh’s religious minorities have reported looting, arson, and vandalization following Sheikh Hasina’s abrupt resignation as prime minister last month.

Dhaka, Bangladesh — Since student-led opposition protests led Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to step down and flee Bangladesh on August 5, religious minorities say their communities have suffered ...

In Bangladesh, after all, religion is not doctrinal or dogmatic. When Islam entered this region, no one could read Arabic; the first preachers didn't recite the Qur'an, ...