Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits Rome Wednesday, just a month ahead of the US elections and hot on the heels of a diplomatic breach with the Vatican, that experts see as an effort to win conservative Catholic votes.

Pompeo in tense visit to Vatican as US vote nears

After highlighting that "the Holy See reached an agreement with the Chinese Communist Party, hoping to help China's Catholics", US secretary of state Mike Pompeo insisted in an article that the "human rights situation in China has deteriorated severely under the autocratic rule of Xi Jinping, especially for religious believers.

'Vatican endangers its moral authority': Pompeo on deal with China

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Pompeo in tense visit to Vatican as US vote nears

'Vatican endangers its moral authority': Pompeo on deal with China