The "Sinization of religion" was first mentioned by President Xi Jinping in 2015, hot on the heels of the declaration of his ...

A FTER 110 years of existence, the tiny Jamia Mosque in Hong Kong is safe from a developer’s wrecking ball. Declared an official monument in 2022, the landmark can probably thank geopolitics for its ...

Chinese authorities are removing the dome roofs from thousands of mosques across that country. They say the domes are evidence of Arab influence. It's part of a push to sinify ethnic groups - as in, ...

URUMQI (Reuters) - Mosques reopened for Friday prayers under the watchful eyes of security troops in Urumqi, a riot-torn city on China's far western frontier where 192 people were killed in ethnic ...

Kashgar, a city in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in western China, is unique in many ways. On the one hand, it is a classic Chinese metropolis with a lot of skyscrapers, bright signs and ...

SHANGHAI, Sept 26 (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry denied claims from an Australian think-tank that it had destroyed thousands of mosques in its western Xinjiang region, and said there are over 24 ...

BEIJING - The government demolition of a newly refurbished mosque in a northern Chinese village has raised tensions with the Hui, a Muslim group that in the past has been granted more freedoms by the ...

China’s repression of its Muslim citizens acts as a lightning rod for criticism of the country and its influence campaign in ...