Pope Francis refers to China’s Uyghurs as ‘persecuted’ for the first time

Pope Francis has for the first time publicly named China’s Uyghur minority among a list of the world’s persecuted peoples, breaking his silence on allegations of widespread human rights abuses in Beijing’s Xinjiang region.

Pope Francis has for the first time publicly named China’s Uyghur minority among a list of the world’s persecuted peoples, breaking his silence on allegations of widespread human rights abuses in Beijing’s Xinjiang region.