Sunday, August 9, 2015

'With war one always loses:' Pope Francis calls for nuclear weapons ban



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Pope Francis © Tony Gentile
“Seventy years ago, on the sixth and the ninth of August 1945, the terrible atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki took place. Even after so many years, this tragic event still arouses horror and revulsion,” he told the faithful in his weekly Angelus address at St. Peter’s Square.




The pope said that the attacks are a symbol of the “enormous power of humanity” when people misuse scientific and technical progress.






[This event] serves as a lasting warning to humanity so that it rejects forever war and bans nuclear weapons and all arms of mass destruction,” the pope said.






“May one cry rise up from every land, ‘No’ to war and violence and ‘Yes’ to dialogue and to peace. With war one always loses. The only way to win a war is never to wage it,” was his conclusion.






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Taken from: https://www.rt.com/news/312005-pope-francis-hiroshima-war/

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