Vatican Renews Negotiations With Palestinians

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Vatican Renews Negotiations With Palestinians

Vatican officials met with representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization (plo) in Ramallah on January 29 to resume bilateral negotiations. The Vatican is seeking “a formal agreement regulating and promoting the presence and activity of the Catholic Church in the Palestinian territories,” according to the Catholic News Service.

“[T]he talks took place in a positive atmosphere to strengthen further the special relations between the two sides,” a joint communiqué on the meeting said. The Vatican presented a draft agreement that both sides will look at before meeting at the Vatican “in the near future.”

The Vatican desperately wants control of Jerusalem and Israel, which makes its negotiations with the Palestinians and Israelis important to watch. For more information on its agenda in the area, read our article “Why Does the Vatican Want a Palestinian State?” from the latest print edition of the Trumpet magazine.