Chinese Muslims visit the Najiahu Mosque in Yinchuan, the capital of China's western Ningxia Hui Autonomous Province where authorities have damaged, destroyed or closed at least 1,300 mosques since ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Xinjiang's top Communist Party official said on Thursday that the "Sinicisation" of Islam in the Muslim-majority region in northwestern China, where Beijing is accused of human ...

CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. China regularly ranks among the worst-performing countries on freedom of religion. That makes sense, given the crackdown on ...

Local residents burn paper offerings as a ritual for deceased ancestors during the Zhongyuan Festival in Rongan, China. (STR/AFP via Getty Images) How we did this This report aims to explain the ...

(The following is an updated version of a feature first issued on July 7) By Ben Blanchard KASHGAR, China, July 28 (Reuters) - In a backstreet of the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, Chinese authorities ...

China has been pursuing a ‘sinicisation’ policy to make Islam in China more ‘Chinese', leading to transformations such as the removal of 'foreign’ architectural features from mosques and the ...

Chinese authorities have altered, closed or partially demolished thousands of mosques across China in a suppression of Islamic culture that has spread to almost every region of the country. Beijing's ...

China is shutting down mosques in areas outside of Xinjiang in violation of the right to freedom of religion, according to a report released Wednesday from Human Rights Watch (HRW). The Chinese ...

Since the Hamas attack on Israel last month, both Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin and Chinese Pres. Xi Jinping have openly aligned themselves with Hamas and the Islamic world. ZUMAPRESS.com Russia and ...

Generous government scholarships have generated positive impressions of China – and even an impulse to defend its policies in the face of Western criticism. “Seek knowledge even unto China,” states a ...