China criticised Pope Francis on Tuesday over a passage in his new book in which he mentions suffering by China’s Uighur Muslim minority group.Foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Pope Francis’ remarks had no factual basis at all. “People of all ethnic groups enjoy the full rights of survival, development, and freedom of religious belief,” Zhao Lijian said at a daily briefing.Zhao Lijian made no mention of the camps in which more than 1 million Uighurs and members of other Chinese Muslim minority groups have been held. The U.S. and other governments, along with human rights groups, say the prison-like facilities are intended to divide Muslims from their religious and cultural heritage, forcing them to declare loyalty to China’s ruling Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping. China, which initially denied the existence of the facilities, now says they are centers intended to provide job training and prevent terrorism and religious extremism on a voluntary basis. In his new book Let Us Dream, due on December 1, Pope Francis listed the poor Uighurs among examples of groups persecuted for their faith.Pope Francis wrote about the need to see the world from the peripheries and the margins of society, to places… Read full this story
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