Q: What does a missionary do? A: He does as God pleases and as he deposes. As I close my eyes and remember Burma in which I had lived on and off for five years, I recall the smiles around me. The ...

From a small house on a busy street in the university section of Akron, Ai Hong and his wife, Aliyeh Chan, devote hours responding to the military crackdown in Myanmar, their former home. The military ...

Wrapped in orange robes, Oh Bah Seh, a Buddhist monk, shows a visitor a scar on his head - compliments of a police baton. "We were chanting the loving kindness prayer, and the military police began to ...

Slice cakes, tea, vegetarian and non-vegetarian Burmese khowsuey and China grass pudding for dessert served to devotees on Thursday A devotee pours water on the Buddha statue placed on a temporary ...

In the end, a week was all it took. In that time Burma has gone from ethereal dreams of freedom to a vicious new reality in which protesters are chased off the streets and Buddhist monasteries are ...