{"id":47580,"date":"2019-10-03T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2019\/10\/03\/pope-francis-holds-private-meeting-with-mike-pompeo-us-secretary-of-state\/"},"modified":"2019-10-03T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T15:00:00","slug":"pope-francis-holds-private-meeting-with-mike-pompeo-us-secretary-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2019\/10\/03\/pope-francis-holds-private-meeting-with-mike-pompeo-us-secretary-of-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis holds private meeting with Mike Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early in the morning, the head of U.S. Foreign policy met with the pope.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt's a pleasure to be here. It's a great honor.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They then spoke behind closed doors for around 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. sources in Rome confirmed the two \u201creaffirmed their commitment to advancing religious freedom around the world, and in particular, protecting Christian communities in the Middle East.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They also discussed joint efforts \u201cto promote democracy and human rights globally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To remember his visit, Mike Pompeo gave Pope Francis a gift that evokes the role of emigrants in the country.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is a United States logo, lots of history from the early times of our country's formation. We talked about being a nation of immigrants and this box represents the greatness and uniqueness of our country.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The pope gifted him with a mosaic from a Vatican fountain, the main documents from his pontificate and his message of peace.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI signed it today for you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mike Pompeo was accompanied by his family and introduced his wife to the pope.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the meeting, Pope Francis accompanied them to the door and made one last request of Pompeo.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPray for me.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 3rd, 2019. Pompeo gave the pope a box that represents the U.S., \u201ca nation of immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Zmh1NDUr9uE","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienzapompeoeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienzapompeoint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}