Archbishop Takami, now retired archbishop of Nagasaki, was part of a small peace delegation of atomic bomb survivors that visited the Sheil Catholic Center at Northwestern University Sept. 28 for a Blessed Are the Peacemakers event.
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The activists called for peace through eliminating nuclear weapons and peace from environmental sins committed against the planet.
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Pope Francis urged a renewed commitment to disarmament and to the international treaties designed to limit or eliminate nuclear weapons in Hiroshima, Nov. 24.