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Jeffrey Sachs and the Vatican: Silent on China’s Rights Abuses
National Cathollic Register ^ | April 20, 2021 | Edward Pentin

Posted on 04/20/2021 7:11:35 PM PDT by ebb tide

Jeffrey Sachs and the Vatican: Silent on China’s Rights Abuses

It remains unclear whether Sachs’ approach to China has had a direct influence on the Holy See’s own dealings with Beijing.

VATICAN CITY — The Chinese government continues to be heavily criticized for its treatment of the Uyghurs, an ethnic Muslim minority in the country’s northwest, while the Vatican remains publicly silent — along with one of its influential longtime advisers. 

A Human Rights Watch report released Monday, titled “Break Their Lineage, Break Their Roots — China’s Crimes against Humanity Targeting Uyghurs and Other Turkic Muslims,” declared that the Chinese communist government is committing “crimes against humanity” against the ethnic minority. 

The regime operates hundreds of detention camps in the Uyghur province of Xinjiang, the report said, and former detainees have reported systemic torture and sexual assault in the camps. It also documented abuses and restrictions on religious and cultural practices that have reached “unprecedented levels.”

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TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: apostatepope; bidenvoters; chicomms; china; redpope; sachs

1 posted on 04/20/2021 7:11:35 PM PDT by ebb tide
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2 posted on 04/20/2021 7:12:08 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

This issue, or lack of facing the issue, compounded with this puzzling “Chrislam” initiative, tells me that another great schism is before all members of the Catholic Church, for all that it will matter.


3 posted on 04/20/2021 7:17:30 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (President Asterisk is an ass to risk the economy and rights of all Americans.)
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To: ebb tide

The Catholics need to eliminate this Poope.


4 posted on 04/20/2021 7:18:44 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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