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An Egyptian court on Wednesday confirmed death sentences for two monks for killing the head of a monastery in the country’s Western Desert.The verdict was delivered by the Damanhour Criminal Court against Wael Saad, a monk known by his…

A dead Buddhist monk in Thailand, Luang Phor Pian, left many bewildered after he was found smiling two months after his death.Originally from Cambodia, the 92-year-old Pian succumbed to an illness in a hospital in Thailand's capital,…

Police on Thursday night arrested an acquaintance of a 37-year-old woman found stabbed to death in Matsuyama City last year, reports the Yomiuri Shimbun.Police took a 29-year-old Buddhist monk from Tokushima City, Yoshinori Kurumi, into…