A little over a week before government whistleblower Phil Haney was found dead on the side of a road in California, he was heard on a conference call discussing an interfaith initiative that involved Islamic organizations working with the Vatican and the U.S. government.

One of the people on that call with Haney was Elizabeth Yore, a longtime attorney and international activist who focuses on issues involving the Vatican, Islam and global child abuse.

“I was on this conference call with a group that included Phil, talking about the Abrahamic Faiths Initiative and Pope Francis,” Yore told me in a phone interview Friday, March 5.

The Abrahamic Faiths Initiative was announced Jan. 14, 2020, a little over a month before Haney’s mysterious death. It’s a project enthusiastically supported by then-Vice President Mike Pence, Ambassador to the Vatican Callista Gingrich [wife of former Congressman Newt Gingrich], Pope Francis, Mohammad Majid, who…