Local US Pax Christi leaders visit Japan on peace pilgrimage March 12, 2024

National Catholic Reporter

Among those on the pilgrimage is Ann Suellentrop, 72, a pediatric nurse who has retired after having cared for children for 45 years. Suellentrop is also a peace activist in the Kansas City area who is part of a group that has been calling attention to a nuclear weapons facility there, which produces and procures an estimated 85% of the nonnuclear parts for U.S. nuclear weapons.