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News Singapore » Religion: Singapore's race and religion ideals still work in progress, country is no more stable than others: Shanmugam

News channel or source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/k-shanmugam-race-religion-identity-politics-parliament-work-in-progress-5400141
Published on: Tuesday 14 October 2025

The Home Affairs Minister noted that Singapore’s founding fathers had enshrined the foundational principles of unity in diversity, justice and equality in the National Pledge.

News Singapore » Religion: Guard against temptation to play race, religion card in future elections: PM Wong

News channel or source: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/guard-against-temptation-to-play-race-religion-card-in-future-elections-pm-wong
Published on: Tuesday 23 September 2025

He called for constructive politics, conducted with seriousness and integrity. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

News Singapore » Religion: Please keep religion out of partisan politics

News channel or source: https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/please-keep-religion-out-of-partisan-politics
Published on: Friday 17 October 2025

Singapore must remember the quiet discipline that has kept its multi-religious compact intact. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

News Singapore » Religion: Commentary: Where Singapore draws the red line on identity politics

News channel or source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/singapore-identity-politics-red-line-race-religion-multicultural-society-5420411
Published on: Sunday 31 December 2000

Identity-based politics is not bad per se, but it can become problematic when weaponised to pressure others or divide society, says Dr Jaclyn L Neo from the National University of Singapore Faculty of ...

News Singapore » Religion: Don’t meddle in our elections, Singapore warns PAS after ‘divisive’ GE2025 remarks on race and religion

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/other/don-t-meddle-in-our-elections-singapore-warns-pas-after-divisive-ge2025-remarks-on-race-and-religion/ar-AA1OCGuM
Published on: Thursday 16 October 2025

Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has criticised Malaysia’s Islamist party PAS for comments it said amounted to interference in ...

News Singapore » Religion: S’pore has to move beyond just tolerance on race & religion: Eugene Tan

News channel or source: https://mothership.sg/2025/10/eugene-tan-raising-the-nation/
Published on: Wednesday 15 October 2025

"We have to seek greater understanding of the different races, religions, and cultures, with an appreciation of our diversity." ...

News Singapore » Religion: Singapore not immune to global religious tensions, don’t take racial harmony for granted, says home affairs minister

News channel or source: https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2025/10/11/singapore-not-immune-to-global-religious-tensions-dont-take-racial-harmony-for-granted-says-home-affairs-minister
Published on: Saturday 11 October 2025

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Around the world, religion and ethnicity are being used to divide societies – and Singapore is not immune to these pressures, said Coordinating Minister for National ...

News Singapore » Religion: Spaces of the Religious Economy: Negotiating the Regulation of Religious Space in Singapore

News channel or source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26652197
Published on: Sunday 31 December 2023

Over the past three decades, the theory of religious economy has been established, applied, debated, developed, and rejected. It has proven to be as divisive as any "general theory" of religion should ...

News Singapore » Religion: Do Christians Belong in Southeast Asia? Pew Polled Buddhists and Muslims

News channel or source: https://www.christianitytoday.com/2023/09/pew-southeast-asia-christian-buddhist-muslim-religion-surve/
Published on: Monday 11 September 2023

[UPDATED] New religion survey of 13,000 adults across six nations examines conversion, karma, and compatibility with national identity. Among its neighbors, Singapore is a spiritual anomaly.

News Singapore » Religion: Singapore's megachurches move to export lucrative religion

News channel or source: https://www.reuters.com/article/world/singapores-megachurches-move-to-export-lucrative-religion-idUSBREA250AL/
Published on: Wednesday 05 March 2014

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - "God is here, God is here," croons Singapore church official Sun Ho as she struts across a neon-lit stage and thousands of people in the congregation pump their hands and sing ...

News Singapore » Religion: Most Asians relate religion to nationality, says survey

News channel or source: https://www.ucanews.com/news/most-asians-relate-religion-to-nationality-says-survey/102593
Published on: Wednesday 13 September 2023

Religion and nationality are inseparable for most people living in South and Southeast Asian nations, confirms a report of a survey Pew Research Center released on Sept. 12. In Buddhist majority ...