Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A disused mosque in Kashgar, in China's northwestern Xinjiang region - PEDRO PARDO/AFP VIA GETTING IMAGES China has been accused ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China mosques. Chinese authorities have altered, closed or partially demolished thousands of mosques across China in a suppression ...

China is shutting down mosques in areas outside of Xinjiang in violation of the right to freedom of religion, according to a report released Wednesday from Human Rights Watch (HRW). The Chinese ...

The Chinese government has expanded its campaign of closing mosques to regions other than Xinjiang, where for years it has been blamed for persecuting Muslim minorities, according to a Human Rights ...

Among the concerns raised are pressure campaigns forcing Catholics to join the state-controlled church.

Gold-domed mosques and gleaming minarets once broke the monotony of the Ningxia region's vast scrubland every few miles. This countryside here is home to some of China's 10.5 million Hui Muslims, who ...

An International rights group has accused the Chinese government of closing, demolishing, and converting mosques in China for “secular use” as part of the government’s efforts to restrict the practice ...

Nov. 22 (UPI) --Beijing has closed or destroyed at least 1,300 mosques in the country's Ningxia and Gansu provinces as part of its drive to "Sinicize" religion, according to a Human Rights Watch ...