Pope Francis called for a global ban on nuclear weapons
on Sunday August 09,2015 as he commemorated the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing
of Nagasaki.
Pope Francis told the crowd in Saint
Peter's Square after his weekly Angelus address that "in war there are
only losers, the only way to win a war is not to fight it".
The
bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6
and August 9, 1945, "have become the symbol of the enormous destructive
power of man when he makes a distorted use of the progress of science
and technology", the Pope said.
He said the "tragic"
bombings constitute "a permanent appeal to humanity to repudiate war for
ever and to ban nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass destruction".
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