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China: 100 Christians sent to ‘re-education’ camps in Xinjiang

February 2, 2018 China China, Communism, Converts, Hui, Terrorism, Uyghurs, Xinjiang

More than 100 Christians have been sent to “re-education” camps in China’s north-western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the past few months, World Watch Monitor has learned. In these camps, also known as “study centres” or “mind-transformation centres”, they are taught how to be loyal to the communist ideology. Most . . . Read More

For Chinese Muslims the cost of becoming a Christian is loneliness

January 24, 2018 China China, Converts, Hui, Uyghurs, Xinjiang

"Id Kah Mosque", the 500-year-old main mosque in Kashgar, one of the westernmost cities of China, in Xinjiang, where up to 7,000 Muslims gather every Friday for prayer. (Photo: World Watch Monitor, 2009)

For the few thousand Muslims in China who have become Christians, life is characterised by loneliness. Cast out from their families and communities, in the rural areas where most of them live it is difficult to find other Christians, especially under China’s strict religion regulations. Often Christians of Muslim background . . . Read More

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China: 100 Christians sent to ‘re-education’ camps in Xinjiang

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