China Slams Pope For Referring to Muslim Uighurs as ‘Persecuted’

China Slams Pope For Referring to Muslim Uighurs as 'Persecuted'

Pope Francis prays with priests at the end of a limited public audience at the San Damaso courtyard in The Vatican on September 30, 2020 during the COVID-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus. Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP Pope Francis has sparked fury in China by referring to the country’s Muslim Uighurs as a ‘persecuted’ people in a book set for release next month.

In the book Let Us Dream: The Path to A Better Future, Francis says: ‘I think often of persecuted peoples: the Rohingya, the poor Uighurs, the Yazidi.’

While Francis has spoken out before about the Rohingya […]

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