Hiroshima

TOKYO - Pope Francis will meet survivors of Japan's 2011 "triple disaster" -- earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear meltdown -- on the penultimate day of his long-cherished trip to Japan Monday. After an emotional day comforting survivors of atomic bombs…

Nagasaki: Pope Francis railed against the use of nuclear weapons and the growing arms trade on Sunday as he paid tribute to the "unspeakable horror" suffered by victims of the Nagasaki atomic bomb. In a highly symbolic visit to the Japanese city devastated b…

Rain didn't deter Pope Francis' faithful lining up before dawn to catch a glimpse of him on Sunday (November 24). Speaking at Nagasaki's Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Park, ground zero of the bomb drop during WW2 that killed 27,000 people, the Pontiff sent a strong…

The use of atomic energy for purposes of war is immoral, the pope declared during a nighttime prayer at Hiroshimas peace memorial. He added off-the-cuff, As is the possession of atomic weapons. We will be judged for this, he warned. Francis visited Hirosh…

Hiroshima, Japan, Nov 24, 2019 / 05:30 am (CNA).- Pope Francis prayed for peace Sunday at the site of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, where he called for an end to war and the threat of nuclear weapons. How can we propose peace if we constantly invoke the thre…

Survivors of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima told Pope Francis on Sunday of the "scene of hell" after the bombing, as the pontiff hit out against the use of the weapons. The pope began his four-day trip to Japan with stops in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, where he…

By Agence France-Presse Survivors of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima told Pope Francis on Sunday of the “scene of hell” after the bombing, as the pontiff hit out against the use of the weapons. Pope Francis meets survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing during …

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption The pontiff prayed at a memorial during the first papal visit to Japan in decades Pope Francis has made an impassioned appeal for the abolition of nuclear weapons during a visit to Nagasaki, one of the two Japanese …

Pope Francis demanded world leaders renounce atomic weapons and the Cold War era doctrine of deterrence, saying the stockpiling of nuclear arms decreases security, wastes money and threatens humanity. Francis blasted the demise of arms control treaties while…

The head of the Catholic Church Pope Francis is currently in the middle of a trip to Japan, the country that suffered the most from the use of atomic weapons following the US bombing in 1945. Francis is only the second pope in history to pay his respects to t…