Before the service, a new bell donated by U.S. Catholics rang out for the first time in one of the two bell towers of Urakami ...

Brendan Fay, nuclear disarmament activist with (NYCAN - New York Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) welcomed Japanese Peace ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of our country dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A few days after the ...

"We must abandon the fists, weapons, and tools of violence we hold in our hands, and stop creating nuclear weapons. Let us ...

People in Staffordshire are warmly invited to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, marking Japan’s surrender in the Second World War.

James "Jim" Wren, one of the oldest surviving veterans of the Second World War, recounted his experience over a cup of tea at ...

Lanterns carrying the names of the dead floated across Jackson Park’s koi pond last week as more than 300 people gathered for ...

Members and supporters of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) gathered on the Millennium Bridge over the River Lune to ...

Flag-waving hyper-nationalists in America – and other places – conveniently forget the threat of nuclear war, and have become increasingly chauvinistic and escapist.

Twelve-year old Sadae Kasaoka (birth name Hiraoka ), a first-year student at a girls’ high school, was at home with her grandmother on Aug. 6, 1945, enjoying a beautiful morning and doing housework ...

Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington likened the current moment to the era of profound reflection in Catholic circles after the Second World War that led to ...

At the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings, Catholic peace groups gathered in Washington, DC, to remember the victims, ...