Setsuko Thurlow and the Hiroshima Nagasaki Day Coalition continue to work with Canadian and international peace groups to alert Canadians about the dangers of nuclear weapons and to encourage them to take action to save our planet.
In 2019, Setsuko Thurlow and the Earth Caravan presented the Hiroshima Flame to Pope Francis. To symbolize a future free from all weapons, including nuclear arms, Pope Francis blew out the Hiroshima Flame.
Setsuko Thurlow presented Pope Francis with a copy of John Hersey’s Hiroshima, the very first account published in English and Japanese of the destruction of Hiroshima.