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.

source https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/24/europe/pope-francis-china-uyghur-intl-hnk/index.html