Essay: ‘Oppenheimer’ may have ignored US nuclear victims. Congress should not.
BRIDGET MOIX, general secretary of the US Friends Committee on National Legislation, says – in an article first published on Religion News Service – that the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act expires in June. It doesn’t have to…
Atom bomb survivor hopes Japan debut of ‘Oppenheimer’ will stoke nuclear debate
Hiroshima, Japan Reuters Teruko Yahata was eight when she saw a blueish-white light envelop the sky over her home city of Hiroshima one summer morning, moments before the first atomic bomb explosion knocked her unconscious and levelled swathes of the Japanese city. Teruko Yahata, 86, a World War II Hiroshima atomic bombing survivor, speaks about […]
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…
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, […]
Museum tells story of Japan’s hidden Christians
World Watch Monitor A monument in Nagasaki for the 26 Catholics who were executed here for their faith in 1597. PICTURE: Thaths via Flickr; CC 2.0 A museum telling the story of Christian persecution in Japan has opened within the premises of Japan’s oldest standing church in Nagasaki. The facility, located in a former seminary and […]