Uighur Muslims in China Are Persecuted, Says Pope Francis

Francis mentions plight of Muslim minority in China, alongside Rohingya and Yazidi, in new book Pope Francis has for the first time called Chinaࢀ™s Muslim Uighurs a ࢀœpersecutedࢀ 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: ࢀœI think often of persecuted peoples: the Rohingya, the poor Uighurs, the Yazidiࢀ in a section where he also talks about persecuted Christians by terrorist groups. The pope has spoken out before about the Rohingya who have fled Myanmar, and the killing of Yazidi…