The Vatican Remains Silent on the Persecution of Chinese Christians 04/23/2021 at 5:46 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
By Fr. Mario Alwxis Portella, Crisis Magazine, April 12, 2021
Last November, Pope Francis, for the first time, called China’s Muslim Uighurs a “persecuted” people, something human rights activists have been urging him to do for years. However, during his solemn
Urbi et Orbi Easter blessing on Easter Sunday, Francis snubbed the Uighurs as he carefully omitted any reference to those suffering human rights abuses under China’s Communist regime when he named an array of countries, such as Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Nigeria, and Tigray where people are plagued by violence and conflict.