Binaj Gurubacharya

Binaj Gurubacharya is an author at Religion News Service.

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UN cultural agency decides against placing Lumbini, Buddha’s birthplace in Nepal, on endangered list

By Binaj Gurubacharya and David Rising — July 29, 2024
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Experts from UNESCO had recommended placing Lumbini on the agency's list of sites in danger, saying that the deterioration of key features to the site shows an “alarming state of conservation.”

Myanmar military reverts to strategy of massacres, burnings

By Rishabh R. Jain, David Rising, and Sam McNeil — December 30, 2021
BANGKOK (AP) — When the young farmhand returned to his village in Myanmar, he found the still smoldering corpses in a circle in a burned-out hut, some with their limbs tied. The Myanmar military had stormed Done Taw at 11 a.m. on Dec. 7, he told the AP, with about 50 soldiers hunting people on […]
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