He also noted the importance of forgiveness in one's disposition.
Turning to dialogue, Pompeo emphasized the importance of listening carefully and not rushing to judgement, but especially truth telling.
He noted that as Secretary of State "I'm especially telling the truth about the dire condition of religious freedom around the world. America has a proud history of religious freedom, and we want jealously to guard it here. But around the world, more than 80% of mankind lives in areas where religious freedom is suppressed or denied in its entirety."
He said the Chinese Communist Party "is detaining and abusing more than one million Uighur Muslims in internment camps in the Xinjiang" and "Christian pastors today are being unlawfully arrested, beaten, detained inside the Islamic Republic of Iran. We need to speak about this."
"Christian areas in northern Iraq that I've had the privilege to visit have been ravaged by ISIS, part of a greater trend of Christian persecution all across the Middle East," he added.
Pompeo spoke of the State Departments efforts in recent years to emphasize religious freedom, saying, "we've hosted ministerials. We bring leaders from all around the world called the Ministerial on Religious Freedom at the State Department. We've told the world about these shortfalls and the success of nations when individuals are given their basic human dignity to practice their conscience, their faith, or to choose no faith if they so choose all around the world."