Mike Pompeo Archives

Smith, USCIRF welcome State Department report on religious persecution

Dec 24, 2019

A Catholic member of Congress and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom welcomed the U.S. Department of State’s redesignation of nine nations as “countries of particular concern” for carrying out or tolerating “systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of religious freedom.”

By Catholic News Service

Pompeo meets Pope Francis as impeachment roils Washington

Oct 3, 2019

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met privately with Pope Francis and visited his ancestral home in southern Italy on Thursday as the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump roiled Washington.

By Matthew Lee

At Vatican, Pompeo says authoritarian regimes see God as a threat

Oct 2, 2019

At the Vatican on Wednesday, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo denounced authoritarian regimes and autocrats, naming Cuba, Iran, China and Syria as the roots of religious repression, because they fail to acknowledge a power higher than their own.

By Inés San Martín

Pelosi, Wolf urge US to call out China for religious freedom abuses

Jul 17, 2019

Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi described the repression of religious minorities in China as a “challenge to the conscience of the world” on Tuesday during the opening day of a high-level summit on religious freedom.

By Christopher White

Former U.S. ambassador to Vatican heads commission on ‘Unalienable Rights’

Jul 8, 2019

A former Vatican ambassador will head a new U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights.

By Christopher White

U.S. State Dept. honors Italian nun during human trafficking report presentation

Jun 20, 2019

An Italian nun who has spent most of her ministry working to rescue people from human trafficking from Myanmar to the United States was recognized by the United States’ Secretary of State as a “hero” for her work.

By Inés San Martín