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News channel or source: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-yunnan-mosque-02212024144639.html
Published on: Wednesday 21 February 2024
A mosque in a mostly-Muslim town in southwestern China whose dome and minarets were demolished last year has been refitted with Chinese-style pagodas and billboards praising the Communist Party, ...
News China » Yunnan » Religion: The Last Minarets of Yunnan
News channel or source: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/last-minarets-yunnan-muslims-nationalism
Published on: Tuesday 05 September 2023
In late May, thousands of Hui Muslims clashed with local police in the town of Nagu in China’s southwestern Yunnan Province. They were protesting the government’s plan to demolish the dome and ...
News China » Yunnan » Religion: ‘A jealous god’: China remakes religions in its own image
News channel or source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/26/a-jealous-god-china-remakes-religions-in-its-own-image
Published on: Monday 25 September 2023
When the pope is on official business, it is customary for him to send a greeting from the papal aeroplane to the heads of state of the countries he flies over. As Pope Francis’s plane cruised above ...