A FTER 110 years of existence, the tiny Jamia Mosque in Hong Kong is safe from a developer’s wrecking ball. Declared an official monument in 2022, the landmark can probably thank geopolitics for its ...

The authorities in a Muslim-majority town in southwest China have revamped a popular mosque with Chinese-style pagodas and billboards praising the Communist Party despite strong opposition from local ...

Chinese authorities are removing the dome roofs from thousands of mosques across that country. They say the domes are evidence of Arab influence. It's part of a push to sinify ethnic groups - as in, ...

SHANGHAI, Sept 26 (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry denied claims from an Australian think-tank that it had destroyed thousands of mosques in its western Xinjiang region, and said there are over 24 ...

A February 2023 video of a minaret being taken down in Turkey following an earthquake has been falsely shared as footage showing the demolition of a mosque in China. The Turkish Ministry of ...

It is 5:50 in the morning, and dark shadows scurry through narrow alleys to the mosque, as the call to prayer echoes from a minaret in Kaifeng. This city in central China's Henan province has an ...

Kashgar, a city in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in western China, is unique in many ways. On the one hand, it is a classic Chinese metropolis with a lot of skyscrapers, bright signs and ...

The last major mosque in China to have retained Arabic-style features has lost its domes and had its minarets radically modified, marking what experts say is the completion of a government campaign to ...

BEIJING - The government demolition of a newly refurbished mosque in a northern Chinese village has raised tensions with the Hui, a Muslim group that in the past has been granted more freedoms by the ...