on good friday, the pope recalls the passion of jesus christ, and the land in which he lived, shed his blood and died. although in the previous month, an armistice had brought war between arabs and jews in palestine to an end, these holy places were now faced with difficulties and uncertainty, pope pius xii said. the pope mentioned the numerous refugees who lived in exile and even in concentration camps. he asks for more systematic efforts to allow those people a life in peace. he repeated his call for internationalization of the holy places: