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Pope Francis demanded world leaders renounce atomic weapons and the Cold War-era doctrine of deterrence, saying Sunday the stockpiling of nuclear arms decreases security, wastes resources and threatens humanity with catastrophic destruction. Pope Francis ma…

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) The Latest on the popes visit to Japan (all times local): 5:50 p.m. Pope Francis rode in a carbon-free popemobile at his Mass in Nagasaki, an appropriate choice in line with his environmental concerns. Organizers say Francis used a Toy…

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) Pope Francis demanded world leaders renounce atomic weapons and the Cold War-era doctrine of deterrence, saying Sunday the stockpiling of nuclear arms decreases security, wastes resources and threatens humanity with catastrophic destructi…

NAGASAKI, Japan - (Reuters) - 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 Two and the only places…

Pope Francis landed, Saturday, November 23, in Japan, beginning the second leg of a trip to Asia, that first took him to Thailand. In wet and windy weather conditions, officials and schoolchildren greeted Francis with a welcome ceremony at Tokyo-Haneda Airpor…

NAGASAKI, Japan: Kenji Hayashida thought about committing suicide in the years after an atomic bomb was dropped on his hometown of Nagasaki. On Sunday (Nov 24) he will hear Pope Francis call there for a world without nuclear weapons, a message 81-year-old su…

NAGASAKI, JapanIts fitting that Pope Francis makes his first official visit to Japan in Nagasaki, the city where Christianity first took hold in the country and where nearly 500 years later it remains steeped in blood-soaked symbolism, both religious and poli…

Pope Francis landed in the wind and rain in Tokyo on Saturday evening, issuing a call for an end to nuclear weapons is the only country to have suffered a nuclear bomb attack. He is set to travel to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two cities flattened by U.S. atom b…

Francis touched down in Tokyo on Saturday, becoming the first pope to visit the East Asian country in 38 years. His four-day trip will include visits to Nagasaki and Hiroshima, cities where over 210,000 people were killed when the United States dropped nucle…

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Pope Francis left Thailand on Saturday after a three-day visit and headed to Japan, where he is to visit the ground zeros of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as part of his campaign against nuclear weapons. The pope, 82, was accompanied to the air…