As part of President Xi's efforts to 'make China great again,' an ongoing Sinicisation process aims to fully assimilate the ...

What he's describing is, in part, the impact of an express policy in Xi Jinping's China - one that aims to "Sinicize" ...

GUANGHE, China (Reuters) - For some in China's ethnic Hui Muslim minority here, a recent ban on young people engaging in religious education in mosques is an unwelcome interference in how they lead ...

All Chinese mosques should raise the national flag to “promote a spirit of patriotism” among Muslims, the country’s top Islamic regulatory body has declared, as the Communist Party seeks to tighten ...

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 ...

Ma Ruilin worked as a Communist Party cadre helping fellow Muslims navigate their country as religious minorities, until the official hostility became too great to bear. Ma Ruilin praying in the ...

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What began as a routine travel vlog in China’s Xinjiang region has now triggered a heated debate online, especially among viewers in Pakistan and India. A Pakistani content creator visiting Kashgar, ...

China regularly ranks among the worst-performing countries on freedom of religion. That makes sense, given the crackdown on Muslim Uyghurs and the the destruction of Christian churches. These are the ...

This book explains how the worship requirements of the mosque and the Chinese architectural system converged. What happens when a monotheistic, aniconic, foreign religion needs a space in which to ...