{"id":71254,"date":"2020-11-25T15:05:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T15:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=71254"},"modified":"2020-11-25T15:05:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T15:05:29","slug":"pope-francis-describes-uyghur-and-rohingya-muslims-as-persecuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/71254-pope-francis-describes-uyghur-and-rohingya-muslims-as-persecuted\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis describes Uyghur and Rohingya Muslims as \u201cpersecuted\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/photo_2020-11-25_17-07-40.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/photo_2020-11-25_17-07-40.jpg 750w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/photo_2020-11-25_17-07-40-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/photo_2020-11-25_17-07-40-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time, Pope Francis described the Uighur Muslims in China as &#8220;persecuted&#8221;, something human rights activists have been urging him to do for years.<br>In his book entitled, \u201cLet Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future,\u201d Francis listed \u201cthe poor Uighurs\u201d among the people of the world he kept in his mind and prayers.<br>In the book, which contains 150 pages and is expected to be launched on the first of December, Pope Francis talks about the economic, social and political changes he believes are necessary to deal with inequalities after the end of the pandemic.<br>\u201cI think often of persecuted peoples,\u201d Francis said in one passage. \u201cThe Rohingya, the poor Uighurs, the Yazidi \u2014 what ISIS did to them was truly cruel \u2014 or Christians in Egypt and Pakistan killed by bombs that went off while they prayed in church.\u201d<br>Zhao Lijian, the spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said during a Tuesday news briefing that the pope\u2019s words had \u201cno factual basis,\u201d according to The Associated Press.<br>\u201cThe Chinese government has always protected the legal rights of ethnic minorities equally,\u201d he said, according to Reuters.<br>Religious leaders, rights groups and governments have spoken of crimes against humanity and genocide against the Muslim Uighur minority in the Xinjiang region, in the far west of China, where more than a million are being held in camps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, Pope Francis described the Uighur Muslims in China as &#8220;persecuted&#8221;, something human rights activists have been urging him to do for years.In his book entitled, \u201cLet Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future,\u201d Francis listed \u201cthe poor Uighurs\u201d among the people of the world he kept in his mind and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":71262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,30],"tags":[531,259,46,872],"class_list":["post-71254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-muslims","tag-pope-francis","tag-rohingya","tag-uyghur"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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