Pope Leo rejects Trump invitation to join Gaza ‘Board of Peace’

Holy See will not join Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza

WASHINGTON (OSV News): “One concern is that at the international level it should above all be the UN that manages these crisis situations. This is one of the points on which we have insisted,” Pietro Cardinal Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, said on February 17, while indicating that the Holy See would not be…

Pope Leo rejects Trump invitation to join Gaza ‘Board of Peace’

The Vatican flatly rejected a U.S. invitation to join the Trump-led “Board of Peace” for Gaza. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem previously described the project as “a colonialist operation” focused on “others deciding for the Palestinians.” Mondoweiss, By Jeff Wright  February 20, 2026  Pope Leo XIV, the U.S.-born Pontiff, has formally declined U.S. President Trump’s invitation for the Vatican to join his so-called Peace Board for Gaza. Accordin…