Francis mentions plight of Muslim minority in China, alongside Rohingya and Yazidi, in new book Pope Francis has for the first time called China's Muslim Uighurs a "persecuted" people, something human rights activists have been urging him to do for years. In the wide-ranging book Let Us Dream: the Path to a Better Future, he said: "I think often of persecuted peoples: the Rohingya, the poor Uighurs, the Yazidi" in a section where he also talks about persecuted Christians in Islamic countries.
Francis mentions plight of Muslim minority in China, alongside Rohingya and Yazidi, in new book Pope Francis has for the first time called China's Muslim Uighurs a "persecuted" people, something human rights activists have been urging him to do for years. In the wide-ranging book Let Us Dream: the Path to a Better Future, he said: "I think often of persecuted peoples: the Rohingya, the poor Uighurs, the Yazidi" in a section where he also talks about persecuted Christians in Islamic countries.
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