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Mar 30, 2019 · Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has linked Christian beliefs with foreign policy, raising questions about the extent to which his evangelism is influencing American diplomacy. Doug Mills/The...
Dec 1, 2019 · Commentary. Good News. Mike Pompeo’s Non-Negotiable Faith. The secretary of state is a Christian who prays for wisdom, and he doesn't mind admitting it. by Jerry Pierce | December 1, 2019 | Faith Profile.
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- Pompeo Said He Was First ‘Brought to Christ’ When He Was A Cadet at West Point
- Pompeo Was A Deacon & Sunday School Teacher at A Kansas Church
- Pompeo Has Come Under Fire For His Comments About Muslims
Pompeo grew up in Kansas and attended West Point after graduating from high school. He described his grandparents as “great, God-fearing people” and said that his parents took him to church regularly and gave him a basic understanding of religion. But Pompeo said that he still wasn’t as devout as he became later. But while he was at West Point, two...
The Washington Post reported that before he was elected to Congress in 2010, Pompeo served as a deacon at Eastminster Presbyterian Church and taught Sunday school for elementary-age children. Pompeo is still a member of the church, which is affiliated with the conservative Evangelical Presbyterian Church. Eastminster broke ties with the Presbyteria...
After the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, Pompeo — who was a congressman at the time — gave a speech on the House floor in which he said that American Muslims hadn’t done enough to condemn the bombing. “It casts doubt on the commitment to peace by adherents of the Muslim faith,” Pompeo said, adding that the “silence” of Muslim leaders was “deafeni...
- Pompeo’s Christian faith is central in his life. He said he was “brought to Jesus Christ” during his early years as a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point by two of his classmates.
- He doesn’t hesitate to talk faith on the job. According to Foreign Policy, he has made references to Christianity during speeches and reports at the CIA, and some within the agency are bristling at this increasingly overt religiosity.
- Religious groups and others accuse Pompeo of maligning Muslims. Muslim, Jewish, human rights and other groups have questioned Pompeo’s nomination based on what they say is a record of hostility toward Muslims.
- Pompeo has taken stands against same-sex marriage. In a 2015 speech, Pompeo quoted a prayer delivered by the Rev. Joe Wright: “America had worshipped other gods and called it multiculturalism.
As secretary of state, Pompeo declared that the U.S.'s human rights policy should prioritize religious liberty and property rights. During his tenure, the U.S. moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, [3] and brokered the Abraham Accords , which normalized diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates . [4]
Dec 13, 2017 · Mike Pompeo, a former three-term U.S. congressman from Kansas, became director of the Central Intelligence Agency and then U.S. secretary of state under President Donald Trump.
Jul 10, 2019 · By Masha Gessen. July 10, 2019. The Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has called religious freedom “our first liberty here, in the United States.” Photograph by Patrick Semansky / AP....
