The law, which Beijing says applies outside of China, has renewed international criticism over the handling of minorities ...

Rights groups and Western officials have criticized the law as a threat to Tibetans, Uyghurs and other minorities. Beijing says the measure aims to protect them.

Rights groups say the law could shrink the space for minority languages in schools, public institutions and online platforms.

Critics say it could hasten forced assimilation, lead to targeting of critics outside China. Beijing rejects charges.

Catholic leaders from Poland and Ukraine issued a rare joint appeal for reconciliation, urging forgiveness, peace, and ...

The Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress strengthens the status of Mandarin as the official language and, according to Beijing, seeks to build social cohesion and prevent separatism and terroris ...

A man holding a Tibetan flag has died after setting himself on fire outside the United Nations headquarters in New York on ...

Can a work of visual art be experienced as sound? For Karim Noureldin, it can. The Swiss artist creates abstract works that guide the eye across the composition like rhythm in music, revealing new det ...

Priests at the Church of Saint Agnes in St. Paul, Minnesota, celebrate a traditional Latin Rite Mass every Sunday, even ...

Xi Jinping has formalised China’s ethnic assimilation push through a sweeping new law that reaches into schools, homes and public institutions.

The PDKI says six Kurdish fighters were killed in an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp ambush near Piranshahr, while the ...