China bans Ramadhan fasting in Muslim province

Serikali ya China, imewapiga marufuku wanafunzi na wafanyakazi wa serikalini wa kiislamu kufunga mwezi wa Ramadhani kwenye mji wa Xinjiang. Xinjiang ni mji ambao una asilimia karibia 60 ya waislamu.Soma habari yote kutoka Associated Press hapo chini.

Watu wakisubiri time ya kufungua kwenye msikiti wa Niujie, Beijing.

BEIJING (AP) — Students and civil servants in China's Muslim northwest, where Beijing is enforcing a security crackdown following deadly unrest, have been ordered to avoid taking part in traditional fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Statements posted in the past several days on websites of schools, government agencies and local party organizations in the Xinjiang region said the ban was aimed at protecting students' wellbeing and preventing use of schools and government offices to promote religion. Statements on the websites of local party organizations said members of the officially atheist ruling party also should avoid fasting. "No teacher can participate in religious activities, instill religious thoughts in students or coerce students into religious activities," said a statement on the website of the No. 3 Grade School in Ruoqiang County in Xinjiang. Read the rest of the article here...