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null / Porcupen/ShutterstockRome Newsroom, Sep 12, 2022 / 12:00 pm (CNA).This week Pope Francis is traveling to Kazakhstan, a Muslim-majority country sandwiched between Russia and China.The pope has said that he sees the trip to the former Soviet country as "an opportunity to meet many religious representatives and to engage in dialogue as brothers, inspired by the mutual desire for peace, the peace our world thirsts for."The Sept. 13-15 visit to the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan, formerly known as Astana, comes shortly after the pope concluded a meeting with the Vatican s diplomats from around the globe. And geopolitics will inevitably play a role in Pope Francis "pilgrimage of dialogue and peace."RussiaRussia s war in Ukraine looms in the background of Pope Francis trip to Central Asia, so much so that the papal plane will go out of its way to avoid flying through Russian airspace on Sept. 12 and will instead fly further south. Kazakhstan and Russia share a 4,7
Nearly one in 25 people in a county in the Uyghur heartland of China has been sentenced to prison on terrorism-related charges, in what is the highest known imprisonment rate in the world, an Associated Press review of leaked data shows.
BEIJING (AP) Nearly one in 25 people in a county in the Uyghur heartland of China has been sentenced to prison on terrorism-related charges, in what is the highest known imprisonment rate in the world, an Associated Press review of leaked data shows.