CNA Staff, Oct 29, 2020 / 10:30 am
The U.S. Secretary of State on Thursday called out the Chinese Communist Party as the world's most serious threat to religious freedom.
In a speech in Jakarta, Indonesia, Oct. 29, Mike Pompeo said that "the gravest threat to the future of religious freedom is the Chinese Communist Party's war against the people of all faiths-Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, and Falun Gong practitioners alike."
Pompeo said that he recently exhorted Vatican leaders to support religious freedom in China and elsewhere. On Thursday, he asked the leaders of the overwhelmingly-Muslim Indonesia to do the same.
"And today I want to urge you," he said, "I want you to urge the same actions I asked the Catholic Church's leaders to do in the Vatican-we need more religious leaders to speak out on behalf of people of all faiths wherever their rights are being violated."