Essay: How to remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Sign the nuclear weapons treaty
In an article first published on Religion News Service, DIANE RANDALL, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation in the US, on the need for the ongoing push to ban nuclear weapons…
Pope says possession of nuclear weapons “immoral”; churches sign statement calling for their abolition
Rome, ItalyAP Pope Francis on Thursday marked the 75th anniversary of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima by calling for peace and repeating that not only the use of atomic weapons but their mere possession is immoral. Francis sent a message to organisers of the anniversary commemoration, recalling that he had prayed at the Hiroshima peace memorial during […]
Essay: After 75 years, a question about race haunts Truman’s calculation on Hiroshima
Rabbi A JAMES RUDIN, the American Jewish Committee’s senior interreligious adviser, recalls – in an article first published on Religion News Service, his time serving as an Air Force chaplain in Japan in the 1960s and the question put to him by the Japanese during his time there…
Essay: 75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Vatican is providing moral guidance on nuclear weapons
DREW CHRISTIANSEN and CAROLE SARGENT, of Georgetown University – in an article first published on The Conversation, look at the how the Catholic Church’s response to the issue of nuclear weapons has evolved…
PAPAL VISIT: IN JAPAN, POPE CONDEMNS NUCLEAR WEAPONS AS IMMORAL; EARLIER, ADDRESSES SUICIDE AND DEPRESSION
CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ reports from the papal tour of Japan…
Pope Francis brings anti-nuclear message to Japan’s bombed cities
Nagasaki, JapanReuters Pope Francis, a passionate anti-nuclear campaigner, brings his message that nuclear weapons should be abolished to Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the two Japanese cities devastated by atomic bombings in World War II and the only places in the world to so suffer. Francis, who arrived in Japan on Saturday night for a four-day visit, […]
Progress toward a nuclear free world “stalled”, says senior UN official
Progress toward a nuclear free world have “stalled” the top UN disarmament official said on Monday, the 73rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Speaking at a ceremony at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial on behalf of UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Izumi Nakamitsu, the UN’s high representative for disarmament affairs, said that what happened at Hiroshima […]
HIROSHIMA DOME
I recently had the privilege of visiting the Hiroshima dome in Japan, my first time overseas! PICTURE: Dariusz Jemielniak/licenced under CC BY-SA 3.0 This museum tells the haunting story of the first city to experience the terror of the atomic age. It not only tells the global story of what led to the dropping of […]