Vatican declines to join Trump’s Gaza ‘Board of Peace,’ calls for UN leadership

The Vatican volition not articulation President Donald Trump’s recently formed Board of Peace, its apical diplomatic authoritative said Tuesday, signaling reluctance from the Holy See to instrumentality portion successful the post-war initiative.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said the Holy See "will not enactment successful the Board of Peace due to the fact that of its peculiar nature, which is evidently not that of different States," the Vatican’s authoritative quality outlet reported.

The Board of Peace, which was chartered successful January and includes astir 20 countries, is tasked with managing betterment efforts successful the Gaza Strip aft the Israel-Hamas war.

While responding to questions astir Italy declining to articulation the board, Parolin said "there are points that permission america somewhat perplexed," adding that "there are immoderate captious points that would request to find explanations."

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The Vatican announced it volition not enactment successful President Trump’s Gaza betterment board. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

"The important happening is that an effort is being made to supply a response," helium said. "However, for america determination are definite captious issues that should beryllium resolved."

Parolin continued, "One interest is that, astatine the planetary level it should supra each beryllium the UN that manages these situation situations. This is 1 of the points connected which we person insisted."

Pope Leo, the archetypal U.S. pope, received an invitation to articulation the bid committee successful January.

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The Vatican declined to articulation a U.S.-backed committee tasked with overseeing post-war efforts successful Gaza. (Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP via Getty Images)

Leaders from 17 countries participated successful the archetypal charter signing ceremonial successful Davos, Switzerland, successful precocious January, including presidents and different elder authorities officials from Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Central and Southeast Asia.

Israel formally joined the committee past week up of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's gathering with Trump astatine the White House.

Several different countries were besides invited by the White House, including Russia, Belarus, France, Germany, Vietnam, Finland, Ukraine, Ireland, Greece and China.

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President Donald Trump’s recently formed Board of Peace volition determination guardant without Vatican participation. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Poland and Italy connected Wednesday said they would not join.

Trump announced Sunday that committee members person pledged much than $5 cardinal successful assistance for Gaza.

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The president said the backing would beryllium formally pledged during a gathering Wednesday successful Washington, D.C.

Fox News Digital's Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.