{"id":1265170,"date":"2022-02-02T13:38:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T18:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1265170"},"modified":"2022-02-02T13:38:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T18:38:35","slug":"pope-francis-wishes-organizers-of-beijing-olympics-every-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-wishes-organizers-of-beijing-olympics-every-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Wishes Organizers of Beijing Olympics \u2018Every Success\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpope-francis-wishes-organizers-of-beijing-olympics-every-success%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1265170&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/pope-francis-applauds-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">ROME \u2014 Pope Francis gave a shout-out to the Beijing Winter Olympics Wednesday, wishing the organizers of the controversial event \u201cevery success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games are about to open in Beijing, on 4 February and 4 March respectively,\u201d the pope <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/audiences\/2022\/documents\/20220202-udienza-generale.html\">said<\/a> following his weekly General Audience in the Vatican. \u201cI warmly greet all participants. I wish the organizers every success and the athletes the very best.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSport, with its universal language, can build bridges of friendship and solidarity between individuals and peoples of all cultures and religions,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights activists have urged a boycott of the 2022 Olympics, dubbing the event the \u201cGenocide Games\u201d for the ongoing and systematic human rights violations of the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers partnered with the Committee on the Present Danger: China in drafting an open <a href=\"https:\/\/form.jotform.com\/210975813220148\">letter<\/a> to the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) in 2021, with a copy to the International Olympics Committee (IOC), protesting the choice of venue for the games.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There&#8217;s a reason why the world is uniting to boycott the Communist Chinese Genocide Olympics. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cUBW8wl5Vn\">https:\/\/t.co\/cUBW8wl5Vn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1432821109980815366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The president of Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers, Reggie Littlejohn, told Breitbart News that along with the ongoing genocide against the Uyghurs, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been responsible for numerous \u201cother human rights atrocities, such as religious persecution, forced abortion and sterilization, forced organ harvesting, forced labor, and mass surveillance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CCP has also engaged in \u201cdetention of dissidents and whistleblowers, unrivalled environmental predation, and the unleashing of the coronavirus pandemic on the world,\u201d Littlejohn said, making it one of the world\u2019s most egregious human rights abusers.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, the authors reminded the USOC and the IOC of their \u201ccharter commitments and international obligations pertaining to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment for Genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE), which represents the majority-Uyghur population of the occupied region in China, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/28\/uyghurs-urge-americans-make-the-genocide-games-the-least-watched-olympics-in-history\/\">called<\/a> for a spectator boycott of the games in solidarity with the victims of CCP genocide.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Various national governments, including that of the United States, have formally accused China of genocide against the Uyghur people.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis has been roundly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/09\/29\/growing-coalition-questions-vatican-silence-on-chinas-human-rights-abuses\/\">censured<\/a> for his refusal to lift his moral voice to denounce the atrocities perpetrated by the CCP against the Uyghurs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Communist China warned Sunday any country that boycotts the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics can expect &#8220;serious sanctions.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L0SusgeF6j\">https:\/\/t.co\/L0SusgeF6j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1359115747570679810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Francis has made a point of calling out injustices and rights violations around the world but in his assumed role as global human rights sentinel he has always sidestepped China, with whom he has anxiously sought the establishment of diplomatic ties.<\/p>\n<p>In a rare departure from the China policy marked by the Vatican, the U.S. Bishops published a searing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/issues-and-action\/religious-liberty\/religious-freedom-week\/religious-freedom-week-june-24-2020.cfm\">communiqu\u00e9<\/a> in 2020 calling out the CCP for its flagrant violations of religious liberty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the Chinese Communist Party, Chinese citizens have limited religious freedom,\u201d the bishops noted. \u201cSince 2013, religious persecution has intensified under a government campaign for the \u2018sinicization\u2019 of religion \u2014 an effort to have religions conform to government-sanctioned interpretations of Chinese culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Vatican\u2019s provisional agreement with China on the issue of episcopal appointments, \u201creports of persecution by the Chinese government persist as underground churches are closed and their priests detained, crosses destroyed, bibles confiscated, and children under 18 forbidden from attending Mass and receiving religious instruction,\u201d the bishops said.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, \u201cMuslims have suffered grievous human rights abuses,\u201d the bishops wrote. \u201cSince 2017, 800,000 to possibly two million ethnic Uighur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Hui Muslims have been arbitrarily detained in mass internment camps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME \u2014 Pope Francis gave a shout-out to the Beijing Winter Olympics Wednesday, wishing the organizers of the controversial event \u201cevery success.\u201d \u201cThe Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games are about &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}