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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 by terrorist groups. The pope has spoken out before about the Rohingya who have fled Myanmar, and the killing of Yazidi...
