Chaguan: History shows the folly of China’s paranoia about Islam
Crude attempts to sinicise the faith will alienate Muslims Print edition | China Jan 17th 2019 IT IS A shame that so few Chinese remember General Bai Chongxi, a brilliant […]
China’s Muslims fear crackdown in ancient city of Xi’an
Source: The Guardian The streets of Xi’an’s Muslim quarter are bustling. Tourists from all over China and the rest of the world throng the small stalls and restaurants for delicacies such as yangrou paomo lamb […]
In China, they’re closing churches, jailing pastors – and even rewriting scripture
Source: The Guardian BY Lily Kuo in Chengdu In late October, the pastor of one of China’s best-known underground churches asked this of his congregation: had they successfully spread the gospel […]
‘If you enter a camp, you never come out’: inside China’s war on Islam
Source: The Guardian In Hotan, documents show officials are expanding detention camps and increasing surveillance by Lily Kuo in Luopu The Luopu County No 1 Vocational Skills Training Centre is hard to […]
Chinese businessman arrested in Poland for spying
Source: BBC News Poland’s security services say a Chinese businessman and a Polish man, both employed in telecoms, have been arrested for spying. The Chinese national, Wang Weijing, works for […]
China says pace of Xinjiang ‘education’ will slow, but defends camps
Source: Reuters BY Ben Blanchard Beijing has faced an outcry from activists, scholars, foreign governments and U.N. rights experts over what they call mass detentions and strict surveillance of the […]
China’s brutal crackdown on Uighurs shows no sign of slowing down – so why aren’t Muslim leaders stepping in?
The shameful silence of Muslim politicians over the treatment of this community is more than a story of betrayal. It’s a tragic tale of how globalisation has exalted wealth over […]
Advocate of China-Vatican dialogue named Hong Kong bishop
Source: Associated Press BY Viloet Law HONG KONG (AP) — In a move widely seen as kowtowing to Beijing, the Vatican appointed a retired China-friendly cardinal to head the Catholic […]
China passes law to make Islam ‘compatible with socialism’
Source: Aljazeera China has passed a new law that seeks to “Sinicize” Islam within the next five years, the latest move by Beijing to rewrite how the religion is practised. China’s […]
China’s Gulag for Muslims
Source: The New York Times By Mustafa Akyol One of the darkest episodes of the 20th century was the gulag — the Soviet system of forced labor camps where dissidents were […]
A wall of silence around China’s oppression of its Muslim minority is starting to crumble
Alexandra Ma 24h China’s Muslim minority, the Uighurs, are subject to harsh surveillance, with many interned in prison-like detention camps and forced to work. Beijing justifies this crackdown as […]
Hui poet fears for his people as China ‘Sinicizes’ religion
Source: Associated Press By SAM MCNEIL JINAN, China (AP) — Cui Haoxin is too young to remember the days of his people’s oppression under Mao Zedong. The 39-year-old poet was […]
Crisis of faith: Tibetan Catholics face modernity in China village
Source: Reuters BY Joyce Zhou, Christian Shepherd CIZHONG, China (Reuters) – Ruanna, a 77-year-old Tibetan woman living in a remote Chinese village overlooking the Mekong river, says her Catholic faith has […]
Indonesian Muslims protest China’s detention of Uighurs
Source: Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Several hundred protesters chanted “God is Great” and “Get out, communist!” outside China’s embassy in the Indonesian capital on Friday, demanding an end […]
Chinese Police Detain Prominent Pastor and Over 100 Protestants
Source: The New York Times By Ian Johnson The Chinese police have detained one of the country’s most prominent Protestant pastors along with more than 100 members of his independent congregation, […]
For China, Islam Is a ‘Mental Illness’ That Needs to Be ‘Cured’
Abdulla goes to bed every night dreading that knock on the door, a knock he has heard in recurrent nightmares and in stories from neighbors. He expects it can come at any moment. He is an ethnic Uighur and has always called Xinjiang his home. His forefathers lived and toiled […]
China commits a disgusting self-own while defending its crackdown on Muslims
Alex Lockie China’s state-run newspaper The Global Times tried to defend the country’s practice of mass detentions of its majority Muslim ethnic minority, the Uighurs. But it committed a […]
In China, Gene-Edited Babies Are the Latest in a String of Ethical Dilemmas
Source: The New York Times By Sui-Lee Wee and Elsie Chen BEIJING — First it was a proposal to transplant a head to a new body. Then it was the world’s first cloned primates. Now […]
China’s Uighurs told to share beds, meals with party members
Source: Associated Press By DAKE KANG and YANAN WANG ISTANBUL (AP) — The two women in the photograph were smiling, but Halmurat Idris knew something was terribly wrong. One was […]
Buddhist monks to consider whether Dalai Lama should reincarnate
Source: Religion News Service By Meagan Clark and Vishal Arora DHARAMSHALA, India (RNS) — Tibetan Buddhist monks from around the world are gearing up to discuss whether the aging Dalai […]