Religion News Service | By Josephine McKenna Posted: 08/24/2014 8:14 pm EDT VATICAN CITY (RNS) China has reacted cautiously to a bid by Pope Francis to open new dialogue with Beijing, […]
BEIJING — China has reprimanded 15 Xinjiang officials for violations that include adhering to religious faith, state media said on Tuesday, amid a crackdown on what the government calls illegal […]
Telegraph: It was the day after Chinese New Year when Peng Lijuan, a 28-year-old computer science graduate, ran off to join China’s most radical cult. “When I got home, I found our car there, and all her clothes, her ID card, all her belongings, but she was missing,” said her […]
Epigraph: He (Allah) it is Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad), with guidance and the Religion of truth, that He may make it prevail over all other religions. And sufficient is Allah as […]
Source: Time Magazine By Hannah Beech / Linxia @hkbeech Aug. 12, 2014 Beijing bans some Muslims from observing Ramadan, or boarding public transport while veiled, but it allows millions of others to […]
BEIJING – The murder of a state-backed imam in China’s Xinjiang region underscores an escalation in 18 months of violence and could be part of a bid by extremists to persuade moderate Muslim Uighurs to turn against Beijing’s controlled current of Islam. The targeting of Uighur officials or religious leaders has […]
Three suspected Islamist militants armed with knives and axes killed the imam of China’s biggest mosque in the western region of Xinjiang on Wednesday, the authorities said, days after a knife-wielding gang attacked state buildings in the same region. MORE…
The Truth Message – Part – 5.2: Prophecies about The Promised Messiah in other religions Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem [In The Name Of God, The Most Gracious, The Ever Merciful] Concept […]
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Russia Today: The 30,000 residents of Yumen in China have been cut off from the rest of the country to prevent the potential spread of bubonic plague. Lockdown was declared in the city after a man died of the disease and 151 people have been put in quarantine. The city […]
Source: Asia Times: And then there’s the suspicious timing. The MH17 tragedy happened two days after the BRICS announced an antidote to the IMF and the World Bank, bypassing the US dollar. And just as Israel “cautiously” advances its new invasion/slow motion ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Malaysia, by the way, […]
Chinese Muslims in the Western region of Xinjiang are distressed because they are banned from fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. Xinjiang is home to the mostly Muslim Uighur community, one of China’s 56 recognized minority ethnic groups. Three Muslim students told the BBC they were forced to have meals […]
Several university students from China’s western region of Xinjiang have told the BBC that they are being banned from fasting during the month of Ramadan. The three Muslim students we spoke to the BBC did not want their identities revealed as they fear government reprisals for speaking about a sensitive […]
Several university students from China’s western region of Xinjiang have told the BBC that they are being banned from fasting during the month of Ramadan. The three Muslim students we spoke to the BBC did not want their identities revealed as they fear government reprisals for speaking about a sensitive […]
By Martin Patience BBC News, Beijing Several university students from China’s western region of Xinjiang have told the BBC that they are being banned from fasting during the month of […]
By Martin Patience BBC News, Beijing Several university students from China’s western region of Xinjiang have told the BBC that they are being banned from fasting during the month of […]
Source: BBC Confrontation with the US would be a “disaster”, Chinese President Xi Jinping has said as he called for mutual respect between the two nations. Mr Xi’s comments came […]
Source: BBC Confrontation with the US would be a “disaster”, Chinese President Xi Jinping has said as he called for mutual respect between the two nations. Mr Xi’s comments came […]
China’s nationwide ban on state officials and school children fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan has backfired, prompting ethnic Uighurs in the vast northwestern region of Xinjiang to become more observant of the holiday. READ MORE…
| By MALCOLM RITTER Posted: 07/03/2014 9:25 am EDT NEW YORK (AP) — Tibetans living on the “roof of the world” can thank an extinct human relative for providing a gene […]