Rebuffed by Vatican, Pompeo Assails China and Aligns

With Pope’s Critics

Pope Francis declined to see Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is demanding a harder Vatican line on China. The Holy See said meeting just before a U.S. election would be inappropriate.

By Jason Horowitz and Lara Jakes

Sept. 30, 2020, 7:26 p.m. ET

ROME — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently published a sharp letter excoriating the Vatican’s plans to renew an agreement with the Chinese government on Church operations in China. He promoted the article in a tweet, concluding, “The Vatican endangers its moral authority, should it renew the deal.”

An indignant Vatican took the article more as a calculated affront than a diplomatic gesture. The friction broke into the open on Wednesday as Mr. Pompeo arrived in Rome and met with prelates and others who are hostile to Pope Francis, while the Vatican denied him a meeting with the pontiff and rebuffed his efforts to derail the deal with China.

“Pompeo asked to meet” the pope, who turned him down because Francis had “clearly said that he does not receive political figures ahead of the elections,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who, as secretary of state, is the Vatican’s second-ranking official, told reporters.

But to some observers on both sides of the tensions between the Roman Catholic Church and the Trump administration, Mr. Pompeo’s visit is as much about the coming presidential election as about China policy. Mr. Pompeo dismissed that suggestion as absurd, but intended or not, his trip signals that President Trump is on the side of those conservative American Catholics who worry about the church’s direction under Francis and think he is soft on China.

Francis and Mr. Trump, who have exchanged sharp words in the past, present starkly different visions on issues ranging from the environment to immigration to the threat of populism. In appealing to the Vatican’s support for religious freedom as a reason to drop its China agreement, Mr. Pompeo seemed to seek common ground, but in a way that upset the pope’s chief allies and delighted his chief critics.

Cardinal Parolin said Mr. Pompeo’s article had caused “surprise” at the Vatican, because this visit to Rome by the secretary and the meetings with high officials at the Holy See had already been in the works and would have been a “more opportune” forum for airing grievances. He added that Mr. Pompeo’s choice to publish in First Things, a conservative Christian magazine that has called Francis a failure as Pope, also mattered.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/world/europe/pompeo-pope-francis-china.html

Facebook says, as part of its recent crackdown on QAnon

and militia movements, it has removed 6,500 groups belonging to 300 organizations (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

By Isaac Novak -September 30, 2020

https://upnewsinfo.com/2020/09/30/facebook-says-as-part-of-its-recent-crackdown-on-qanon-and-militiaquot-movements-it-has-removed-6500-groups-belonging-to-300-organizations-karissa-bell-engadget/

Mike Pompeo Appeals To Pope Francis To Stand Against

China's Human Rights Violation

Pompeo said that religious freedom is under assault the most in China as he called for "every faith leader" to find courage to confront religious persecution.

Written By Pritesh Kamath

Last Updated: 1st October, 2020 08:22 IST

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has appealed to the Vatican on Wednesday to call out the human rights violation and abuse of religious freedom in China's Xinjiang province on millions of Uighur Muslims. Pompeo opined that the catholic church should be at the forefront of the battle against the human rights violations in China.

Pompeo made this appeal at a symposium on religious freedom organised by the US Embassy to the Holy See. But it also comes at a time when the Vatican is entering into delicate negotiations with China on extending its controversial agreement over bishop nominations.

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https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/us-news/mike-pompeo-appeals-to-pope-francis-to-stand-against-chinas-human-rig.html

Facebook cracks down on extremist conspiracy group QAnon

for hijacking Save the Children movement

Jessica Guynn

USA TODAY 9:36 PM 9 30 2020

Facebook said Wednesday it is cracking down on QAnon for hijacking the Save The Children movement to push falsehoods about the exploitation of children by prominent Democrats including presidential nominee Joe Biden.

“We are taking steps to address evidence that QAnon adherents are increasingly using the issue of child safety and hashtags like #savethechildren to recruit and organize,” Facebook said.

Facebook users searching for that hashtag and related hashtags will be directed to credible child safety resources, the company said in a blog post.

QAnon content has also been "down-ranked," meaning it's far less visible on Facebook's platforms.

“In addition, content about QAnon and child safety is eligible for fact checking through our third-party fact-checking program. Content that is debunked will be reduced in News Feed and filtered from Explore and hashtags on Instagram, will receive a label (so that people who see it, try to share it or already have, will see more context), and it will be rejected as an ad,” the blog post said.

Save the Children? Extremist conspiracy group QAnon fabricates pedophile claims

Facebook said Wednesday it is also banning ads that praise or support extremist conspiracy group QAnon and militia groups. In August, Facebook removed hundreds of groups, pages and ads tied to Qanon.

USA TODAY reported this week that QAnon has latched onto legitimate efforts to fight child abuse to expose unsuspecting Americans to its ideology.

QAnon followers believe that Trump is a messianic figure battling a “deep state” of devil-worshipping, child-molesting Democrats.

Observers say the 2016 presidential election spurred the rise of conspiracy theories once confined to the fringes. With influential figures using their social media megaphones to amplify them, incendiary falsehoods that Biden and other Democrats are pedophiles are circulating in the mainstream before the November election in an alarming break from the norms of presidential politicking.

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/09/30/facebook-cracks-down-qanon-save-children-trump/5875372002/

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Rebuffed by Vatican, Pompeo Assails China and Aligns

With Pope’s Critics

Pope Francis declined to see Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is demanding a harder Vatican line on China. The Holy See said meeting just before a U.S. election would be inappropriate.

By Jason Horowitz and Lara Jakes

Sept. 30, 2020, 7:26 p.m. ET

ROME — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently published a sharp letter excoriating the Vatican’s plans to renew an agreement with the Chinese government on Church operations in China.

He promoted the article in a tweet, concluding, “The Vatican endangers its moral authority, should it renew the deal.”

An indignant Vatican took the article more as a calculated affront than a diplomatic gesture. The friction broke into the open on Wednesday as Mr. Pompeo arrived in Rome and met with prelates

and others who are hostile to Pope Francis, while the Vatican denied him a meeting with the pontiff and rebuffed his efforts to derail the deal with China.

“Pompeo asked to meet” the pope, who turned him down because Francis had “clearly said that he does not receive political figures ahead of the elections,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who,

as secretary of state, is the Vatican’s second-ranking official, told reporters.

But to some observers on both sides of the tensions between the Roman Catholic Church and the Trump administration, Mr. Pompeo’s visit is as much about the coming presidential election as

about China policy. Mr. Pompeo dismissed that suggestion as absurd, but intended or not, his trip signals that President Trump is on the side of those conservative American Catholics who worry

about the church’s direction under Francis and think he is soft on China.

Francis and Mr. Trump, who have exchanged sharp words in the past, present starkly different visions on issues ranging from the environment to immigration to the threat of populism.

In appealing to the Vatican’s support for religious freedom as a reason to drop its China agreement, Mr. Pompeo seemed to seek common ground, but in a way that upset the pope’s chief

allies and delighted his chief critics.

Cardinal Parolin said Mr. Pompeo’s article had caused “surprise” at the Vatican, because this visit to Rome by the secretary and the meetings with high officials at the Holy See had already

been in the works and would have been a “more opportune” forum for airing grievances. He added that Mr. Pompeo’s choice to publish in First Things, a conservative Christian magazine that has

called Francis a failure as Pope, also mattered.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/world/europe/pompeo-pope-francis-china.html

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