{"id":2792,"date":"2016-07-01T01:54:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T01:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2016\/07\/01\/us-asks-china-allow-muslim-citizens-worship-freely\/"},"modified":"2016-07-01T01:54:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T01:54:57","slug":"us-asks-china-allow-muslim-citizens-worship-freely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/us-asks-china-allow-muslim-citizens-worship-freely\/","title":{"rendered":"US asks China to allow Muslim citizens to worship freely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US today asked China to protect religious freedom and allow citizens to worship freely amid reports that the Communist country had banned fasting in its Muslim-dominated Xinjiang region.<\/p>\n<p>By: PTI<br \/>Washington<br \/>\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bPublished: June 29, 2016 11:42 PM<\/p>\n<p>The US today asked China to protect religious freedom and allow citizens to worship freely amid reports that the Communist country had banned fasting in its Muslim-dominated Xinjiang region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call on Chinese authorities to protect freedom of religion and allow citizens to worship freely in accordance with China\u2019s international human rights commitments,\u201d a State Department Spokesperson told PTI when asked about the reported Chinese ban.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreedom of religion is critical to a peaceful, inclusive, stable and thriving society,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The American reaction came after reports said that China had banned civil servants, students and teachers in its Muslim-dominated Xinjiang region from fasting during Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>The reports said that restaurants were ordered to stay open.<\/p>\n<p>A four member delegation of Pakistan is visiting Xinjiang to \u201cobserve\u201d fasting ban in the Muslim-dominated region of China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US today asked China to protect religious freedom and allow citizens to worship freely amid reports that the Communist country had banned fasting in its Muslim-dominated Xinjiang region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-2792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}