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Is North Korea’s State Ideology, Juche(주체), a Religion?

According to Adherents.com, which tracks membership numbers among the world’s various religions, the 10th largest religious group in the world is the entire state of North Korea itself – namely, the Juche (주체) ideology coined by Eternal President Kim Il-sung and propagated through the DPRK’s propaganda machine. The Juche movement is much more overtly religious […]

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Lumbini to be turned into Buddhist ‘Mecca.’

Before stepping down, Nepal’s Maoist government was in a development deal to turn the town of Lumbini into a Buddhist ‘Mecca’ for pilgrimage and Buddhist education. Lumbini is the purported birthplace of the Buddha in Nepal, and the closeness with which the former Maoist government under Prachanda was with China perhaps caused international relations problems […]

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