Barber to meet with Pope Francis
Former state NAACP leader Rev. William Barber will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thanksgiving Day as part of two-day conference of social justice advocates from around the world.
Posted — UpdatedBarber, the president of Repairers of the Breach, a nonpartisan, nonprofit social advocacy group, was invited to the Vatican in September, and he also plans to visit England and Africa to meet with labor and workers’ rights advocates.
The two-day conference will include social justice advocates from the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Ireland, Italy, Senegal, Tunisia, Ghana and other countries.
"This is an extremely humbling experience for me. I am deeply honored to even be invited to participate and share in this conference with other clergy, moral leaders and activists on these critical social issues of our time," Barber said in an email. "The Pope has been on the forefront of declaring that poverty in our current world is a scandal and its eradication should be a top priority. He has called on government and moral leaders to adjust our policies to address the issues of systemic poverty."
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