Nagasaki archbishop to meet U.N. chief in May

NAGASAKI, Japan - Mitsuaki Takami, the archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki, looks at the ''bombed Mary,'' a scorched wooden head of a Virgin Mary statue, during a press conference in Nagasaki on April 13, 2010. Takami said he will take the head, which was found among ruins around 500 meters from ground zero after the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, during his trip to the United States, where he will meet U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and attend a U.N. nuclear disarmament conference.

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