The "Sinization of religion" was first mentioned by President Xi Jinping in 2015, hot on the heels of the declaration of his ...

Left: The Tiejia mosque in Linxia, Gansu province, China, in 2016. Right: The same mosque on Nov. 13, 2020, after authorities demolished the mosque and minarets. (Alice Su / Los Angeles Times) The ...

A part of a minaret broken off from the former Xinqu Mosque lies near a Chinese national flag in a yard adjacent to the former house of worship in Changji outside Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous ...

The Chinese Communist Party's crackdown on Islam is extending beyond western Xinjiang province, home to the repressed ethnic Muslim Uyghurs, and across the country to 10.5 million ethnic Hui Muslims, ...

YINCHUAN, China -- In China's northwest, the government is stripping the most overt expressions of the Islamic faith from a picturesque valley where most residents are devout Muslims. Authorities have ...

XINING, China — The Dongguan Mosque has adopted some very different looks in its nearly 700 years in China's northwestern city of Xining. Built in the style of a Chinese imperial palace, with tiled ...

Wuzhong is not as famous as the other Muslim cities like Urumqi, Kashgar and Lanzhou. It is not even mentioned in the travel guide Lonely Planet. But there is more to the city – about an ...

BEIJING -- A member of a Muslim minority group has been sentenced to two years in a Chinese prison after forming online discussions groups to teach about Islam. Huang Shike was arrested in 2016 in ...

IT IS A shame that so few Chinese remember General Bai Chongxi, a brilliant tactician during the war against Japan in 1937-45. He showed China that it is possible to be at once a patriot and a devoted ...

China has passed new legislation that aims to make Islam "more compatible with socialism" within a four- to five-year timeframe, the latest move in a series of crackdowns on the world's largest nation ...

BEIJING — The flyer showed a restaurant takeout courier carrying two bags — one labeled "halal" for food prepared for Muslims and the other marked "majority food." In the United States, the wording on ...

Thousands of members of China's Hui Muslim minority have gathered at the site of a mosque in Weizhou, in northwestern China, in an attempt to block the government from demolishing the building.