A new Board of Peace is taking shape under President Donald Trump, charged with managing Gaza after the war and staffed by political insiders, financiers, and foreign power brokers. One question has captured outsized attention. The Vatican has confirmed that Pope Leo XIV has been invited to join. No answer has been given. That silence is driving speculation.
The key questions are who sits on the board, what authority it actually has, how religion shapes the Gaza conflict (and beyond) and why the Vatican is weighing the risks of participation. This article explains what the board is designed to accomplish, what it cannot control, and why the Pope’s decision could define how this project is remembered.
The Vatican’s Choice and Trump’s Board of Peace
As religion shapes the Gaza conflict, the Pope’s invitation to join a U.S. led Board of Peace exposes the limits of power, the risks of moral authority, and what this project is realistically built to do.
The most revealing question surrounding President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace is not how many governments have endorsed it or how much reconstruction money it hopes to marshal. The question is whether the Vatican will participate, and what that decision would say about the board itself.
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