Members of a World Council of Churches delegation pose in front of a statue of Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who was injured in the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, and whose unsuccessful quest to fold a thousand paper cranes to keep alive has inspired widespread commitment to abolishing nuclear weapons among Japanese youth. The statue stands in a memorial park in Hiroshima dedicated to the victims of the bombing. The WCC pilgrims came to Hiroshima in August 2015 for the 70th anniversary of the bombing to listen to survivors and local church leaders and to recommit themselves to new forms of advocacy for a world free of nuclear weapons.