VATICAN CITY, 29 November 2020, (TON): Christians including Pope Francis has stated publicly naming Christian Uyghurs, as world's most persecuted peoples.  

 In his new book, Let Us Dream: The Path to A Better Future, published on 23 November 2020, Pope Francis has for the first time publicly named Uyghurs, a major indigenous ethnic group in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, among a list of the world's persecuted peoples amid reports of widespread human rights abuses in the region.

"I think often of persecuted peoples: the Rohingya, the poor Uyghurs, the Yazidi -- what did to them was truly cruel -- or Christians in Egypt and Pakistan killed by bombs that went off while they prayed in church."

Pope Francis was mentioning about Uyghur Christian community in China, comprising of mostly American Uyghur, whose one of the parents are usually Christian converts. Uyghur with a population of over 10 million people, are th largest ethnic group in the Xinjiang’s Uygur Autonomous Region in South-Western China who are all Sunni, Hanafi Muslims but recently Christian Uyghurs have emerged as a surprise to the world. It is been reported that in War on Terror, many Uyghurs who died in the operations and left behind their children were moved to Western nations. Most of them later grow up as Christians.  The Bible has already been translated into the Uyghur language; and and there are Christian radio broadcasts for the spread of Christianity.