Beijing, November 24:슬롯 머신 사이트 추천China 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 Francis' remarks had 슬롯사이트no factual basis at all.슬롯사이트�
슬롯사이트People of all ethnic groups enjoy the full rights of survival, development, and freedom of religious belief," Zhao said at a daily briefing. Zhao 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 US 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.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Donald Trump Signs Bill to Sanction Chinese Officials over Treatment of Uighur Muslim.
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 슬롯사이트Let Us Dream,슬롯사이트� due Dec. 1, Francis listed the 슬롯사이트poor Uighurs슬롯사이트� among examples of groups persecuted for their faith. Francis wrote about the need to see the world from the peripheries and the margins of society, 슬롯사이트to places of sin and misery, of exclusion and suffering, of illness and solitude.슬롯사이트�
In such places of suffering, 슬롯사이트I think often of persecuted peoples: the Rohingya, the poor Uighurs, the Yazidi 슬롯사이트� what ISIS did to them was truly cruel 슬롯사이트� or Christians in Egypt and Pakistan killed by bombs that went off while they prayed in church,슬롯사이트� Francis wrote.
Francis has declined to call out China for its crackdown on religious minorities, including Catholics, much to the dismay of the Trump administration and human rights groups.
The Vatican last month renewed its controversial agreement with Beijing on nominating Catholic bishops, and Francis has been careful to not say or do anything to offend the Chinese government on the subject.
China and the Vatican have had no formal relations since the Communist Party cut ties and arrested Catholic clerics soon after seizing power in 1949.