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Pope Leo XIV will not be joining US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,” the Vatican’s top diplomat said Tuesday, adding that the United Nations should be left to handle crisis situations.
The board, which will be chaired indefinitely by Trump, was originally designed to oversee reconstruction of Gaza. However, its objective has since expanded to make the board a global peacekeeping body.
Pope Leo was invited to join the board last month.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See Secretary of State, told reporters they will not take up the invitation saying they were left “perplexed” by some points of the plan and that “critical issues” needed to be resolved.
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The board, which will be chaired indefinitely by Trump, was originally designed to oversee reconstruction of Gaza. However, its objective has since expanded to make the board a global peacekeeping body.
Pope Leo was invited to join the board last month.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See Secretary of State, told reporters they will not take up the invitation saying they were left “perplexed” by some points of the plan and that “critical issues” needed to be resolved.
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