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On November 10-11, 2017 the Vatican sponsored an international conference on nuclear disarmament in cooperation with the United Nations and with over 300 Nobel-laureates, activists, scholars, and representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGO's). Jack Figel, founder and chairman of the Orientale Lumen Foundation, was invited by Cardinal Peter Turkson to attend and represent Global Zero, a "grass roots" movement to achieve worldwide nuclear disarmament by 2030. Father Andrew Summerson wrote a full-page feature story in Horizons, the diocesan newspaper of the Byzantine Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Parma, OH (Cleveland). The full article can be found on the following link.
Horizons article on Vatican Conference
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