Police in China have given protesters who blocked demolitions at an ancient mosque a deadline to turn themselves in for “disrupting social order” and “criminal acts”. Authorities deployed ...

With a history that may stretch as far back as ... the worst excesses of the Cultural Revolution, when most of China’s mosques, churches and temples were closed. At the time, the Najiaying ...

The architectural overhaul of mosques has come with allegations of shrinking religious freedoms for the Hui, a 11 million-strong ethnic minority that live in scattered pockets throughout China ...

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.

At the heart of what was Guangzhou's Muslim quarter, Huaisheng Mosque probably dates from the 10th century; its minaret has national-level cultural protection A Hong Kong friend recently asked me ...

One poignant scene described in the report occurs in a cold, dusty part of central China, where a local Muslim leader stands alone in the courtyard of a small mosque. "Religion is dying," he ...

“They wanted to build a mosque but I told them to please take their architects to Xi’an, which is the capital of Shaanxi province and the beginning of the eastern starting point of ancient ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several ...