{"id":23219,"date":"2020-09-28T21:04:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T12:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/sep\/28\/mike-pompeo-to-protest-against-vaticans-deal-with-china-during-visit"},"modified":"2020-09-28T21:04:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T12:04:45","slug":"mike-pompeo-to-criticise-vaticans-renewal-of-china-deal-during-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23219","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pompeo to criticise Vatican&#8217;s renewal of China deal during visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis reportedly declining to meet US secretary of state who says the Catholic church too soft on Beijing<\/p>\n<p>Mike Pompeo will visit the Vatican to protest against the imminent renewal of a deal between the Catholic church and China, which the US secretary of state claims endangers its moral authority.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis has reportedly declined to meet Pompeo during his visit this week, citing the closeness of the US election. However, such a move is likely to be linked to Pompeo\u2019s recent attacks on the Vatican\u2019s perceived soft-pedalling on China\u2019s human rights record as the two sides prepare to extend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/sep\/22\/vatican-pope-francis-agreement-with-china-nominating-bishops\">a<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/sep\/22\/vatican-pope-francis-agreement-with-china-nominating-bishops\"> historic agreement signed two years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/sep\/28\/mike-pompeo-to-protest-against-vaticans-deal-with-china-during-visit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis reportedly declining to meet US secretary of state who says the Catholic church too soft on BeijingMike Pompeo will visit the Vatican to protest against the imminent renewal of a deal between the Catholic church and China, which the US sec&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1582,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,368,50,370,221,451,472,754,371,47,1705,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-catholicism","category-china","category-christianity","category-europe","category-italy","category-mike-pompeo","category-pope-francis","category-religion","category-us-news","category-vatican","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23220,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23219\/revisions\/23220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}