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In reply to the discussion: China and the Catholic Church -- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow [View all]guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)14. From your article:
Since at least December 2018, not three months after signing its agreement with the Vatican, Beijing has increased religious persecution as it seeks to Sinicize religion in the country. In the western part of the country, China watchers believe that about a million Uyghur Muslims are being held in concentration camps and the government has removed Islamic symbols from mosques in the region.
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And somehow Chinese atheists persecuting people is a "counterpoint" to RCC priests raping children
Major Nikon
Apr 2019
#21
It is so very easy to ignore repression and intolerance from a place of privilege.
guillaumeb
Apr 2019
#36
...said the religious believer, without a hint of awareness about the irony. n/t
trotsky
Apr 2019
#40