Fr. Mario Alexis Portella: The Vatican Remains Silent on the Persecution of Chinese Christians

By  Fr. Mario Alexis Portella, Crisis Magazine, April 12, 2021

F. Mario Alexis Portella is a priest of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Florence, Italy. He was born in New York and holds a doctorate in canon law and civil law from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.  …r

Last November, Pope Francis, for the first time, called China’s Muslim Uighurs a “persecuted” people, something human rights activists have been urging him to do for years. However, during his solemn Urbi et Orbi  Easter blessing on Easter Sunday, Francis snubbed the Uighurs as he carefully omitted any reference to those suffering human rights abuses under China’s Communist regime when he named an array of countries, such as Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Yemen, Iraq,  Nigeria, and Tigray where people are plagued by violence and conflict.

All things being equal, there is one group whose suffering the Argentinian pope has yet to acknowledge—the Chinese Christians, whose plight is getting worse by the day.

It is incredible that the most influential voice for Christians in the world has been silent on the ever-growing Christian persecutions in Communist China.

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