While at a conference in Rome to honor previous Nobel Peace Prize winners, Jody Williams was dismayed to learn that Pope Francis had refused a meeting with her fellow Nobel laureate, the Dalai Lamaâ??the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, a region which is now under Chinese domination.
â??His Holiness is a spiritual leader,â? Williams said of Francis. â??I hear unfortunate things that the spiritual leader of this capital is loathe to upset China. What does that say? Where is conviction?â? â??Where is morality,â? she went on, â??when the spiritual leader in Rome bows in one way or anotherâ? to a fiendish regime like the one in Beijing?
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