The Vatican has invited global activist and North Carolina clergyman Bishop William J. Barber II to speak and take part in a conference next week focused on fighting poverty.

Barber, president of Repairers of the Breach moral movement and cochair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, will speak Monday. The conference where he is speaking is focused on building coalitions and religious community.

This is Barber’s second visit to the Vatican.

“The Holy Father has made clear that the ‘magic theories’ of market capitalism have failed and that the world needs a new type of politics that promotes dialogue and solidarity and rejects war at all costs,” Barber said in a statement.

Barber is pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in Goldsboro, N.C.