Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 15 Aug 2024 02:06:53 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Religious minorities in Bangladesh under fire after fall of secular regime https://cathnews.co.nz/2024/08/15/religious-minorities-in-bangladesh-under-fire-after-fall-of-secular-regime/ Thu, 15 Aug 2024 05:55:42 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=174563 After the secularist prime minister of Bangladesh fled the country, non-Muslims claim they have suffered attacks in the Islamic-majority country. Around 90 percent of the South Asian nation is Muslim, with 7.95 percent being Hindu, 0.6 percent Buddhist, and just 0.3 percent being Christian - just about 500,000 people in a nation of 170 million. Read more

Religious minorities in Bangladesh under fire after fall of secular regime... Read more]]> After the secularist prime minister of Bangladesh fled the country, non-Muslims claim they have suffered attacks in the Islamic-majority country.

Around 90 percent of the South Asian nation is Muslim, with 7.95 percent being Hindu, 0.6 percent Buddhist, and just 0.3 percent being Christian - just about 500,000 people in a nation of 170 million.

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who resigned and fled the country on Monday, headed the Awami League, a secular party most non-Muslims support.

The protests against the Haina government began in early July with demands from university students to abolish quotas in civil service jobs. Still, they grew larger into a broader anti-government movement.

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