Explore the growing visibility of hardline religious sentiment in Bangladesh and the deep social challenges it presents. Read ...

(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 ...

Information and Broadcasting Minister Zahir Uddin Swapon has said citizens of all religious faiths in Bangladesh enjoy equal ...

Bangladesh's exiled author Taslima Nasreen finds the current situation in her country of birth worsening through time, even compared to the day she was forced to leave over three decades ago. "I'd say ...

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.) ...

Bangladesh’s high court on Monday rejected a petition by secular activists to scrap Islam as the state religion in the wake of nationwide protests by hardline Islamist groups. A special bench of three ...

“Remember Bangladesh is a young country and it is fighting hard to retain the spirit of secularism despite a looming threat from radical elements within the society and outside. So when you are ...

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 ...

The mass uprising that led to the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year autocratic regime has ushered in a new political order in Bangladesh. As the once-dominant Awami League (AL) and its principal rival, ...

Following Sheikh Hasina’s removal from the position of Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus assumed leadership of a non-partisan interim government. His strategy for political survival ...

Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pleaded with Islamist extremists to stop killing in the name of religion Saturday after 20 hostages were killed in a siege at a Dhaka restaurant. “Islam is a ...

The Bangladesh Army has raised a new unit with four companies named after the first four Islamic Caliphs — Umar, Abu Bakr, ...