For the Sake of Peace — the Vatican and Palestine

... Pius XII established the Pontifical Mission for Palestine in order to promote relations with the Palestinians. The Mission did not have a diplomatic status but became an important link between the Roman Catholic Church and the Christian population of Palestine. The Vatican supported the decision by the United Nations for Jerusalem to become a corpus separatum administered by the United Nations Trusteeship Council. The Vatican also insisted on the status quo of the Holy Land sites for the three religions, which ...