Pope Francis, for first time, says China’s Uygurs are ‘persecuted’

In a new book, Pope Francis for the first time calls China’s Muslim Uygurs a “persecuted” people, something human rights activists have been urging him to do for years.“I think often of persecuted peoples: the Rohingya, the poor Uygurs, the Yazidi,” he said in the wide-ranging Let Us Dream: the Path to a Better Future, a 150-page collaboration with his English-language biographer, Austen Ivereigh. It goes on sale on December 1.The comments were made in a section where the pontiff also talks…

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