China
US Muslim leaders call on China to end persecution of Uighurs
By Aysha Khan — February 8, 2019
(RNS) – The letter called for the release of detainees from the internment camps and for U.S. consumers to boycott imports produced by detainees’ forced labor.
Pro-Uighur protests in Indonesia shadowed by ominous domestic politics
By Nithin Coca — January 11, 2019
JAKARTA, Indonesia (RNS) — With Indonesia just months away from national elections, many believe recent rallies were focused more on domestic politics than on genuine support for the Uighurs.
US family discovers Chinese nuns who rescued adopted baby daughter
By Melanie Lidman — December 24, 2018
(Global Sisters Report) — Teagan is happily enjoying life in Chattanooga, Tennessee, doted on by her older siblings, and looking forward to her first Christmas in America.
China’s repression of Uighurs won’t stop until the international community intervenes
By Jacob Lupfer — December 4, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The world at large needs to organize itself to address a crackdown on Muslim minorities whose heroic fight against repression we have so far comfortably ignored.
A young Uighur American cries out for justice
By Yonat Shimron — October 24, 2018
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — Aydin Anwar, the president of Duke University's Muslim Students Association, rallies on behalf of Uighurs facing persecution in China. It's a lonely cause.
Former Chinese internment camp detainee denied US visa
By Dake Kang — October 21, 2018
BEIJING (AP) — Kazakh national Omir Bekali was asked to travel to Washington in September by the chairs of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
China says internment camps are ‘free vocational training’
By Yanan Wang — October 16, 2018
BEIJING (AP) — The ruling Communist Party's resistance to Western pressure over the camps highlights China's growing confidence under President Xi Jinping, the country's most powerful leader in decades.
The Vatican’s China deal is medieval (and that’s a good thing)
By Mark Silk — October 5, 2018
(RNS) — When you've got a church that's been around for the better part of two millennia, there's a lot of history to learn from.
Vatican, China make breakthrough deal on bishop appointments
By The Associated Press — September 22, 2018
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The deal resolved one of the major sticking points in recent years, with the Vatican agreeing to accept seven bishops who were previously named by Beijing without the pope's consent.
Group: Officials destroying crosses, burning Bibles in China
By Paul O'Donnell — September 10, 2018
(RNS) — The campaign corresponds with a drive to 'Sinicize' religion by demanding loyalty to the officially atheist Communist Party and eliminating any challenge to its power over people's lives.
Why evangelical Christians — and all of us — should stand up for the Uighurs
By Bob Roberts — September 10, 2018
(RNS) — Religious freedom isn’t just for your own faith. It’s for people of all faiths or it isn’t religious freedom at all.
Police probe sexual misconduct claims against Chinese monk
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 23, 2018
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese police have opened an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against one of the country's best-known Buddhist monks whose case has highlighted the growth of the #MeToo movement in China.
Religion must obey Chinese law, paper says of mosque protest
By Sam McNeil — August 11, 2018
WEIZHOU, China (AP) — Thousands of Hui people gathered at the towering Grand Mosque on Thursday and Friday to prevent authorities from demolishing the structure.
Christian heartland opens window into fight for China’s soul
By Yanan Wang — August 8, 2018
NANYANG, China (AP) — Under President Xi Jinping, China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, believers are seeing their freedoms shrink dramatically even as the country undergoes a religious revival.
‘Thank the Party!’ China tries to brainwash Muslims in camps
By Gerry Shih — May 17, 2018
(AP) — Day after day, Omir Bekali and other detainees in far western China’s new indoctrination camps had to disavow their Islamic beliefs, criticize themselves and their loved ones and give thanks to the ruling Communist Party.
