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Hiroshima

6 Aug 2013

Dramatising the awful lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Events in Northeast Asia this year “dramatise how much the region and the world still live in the shadow of mass destruction”, says the WCC.
6 Aug 2013

Hundreds gather in Tavistock Square to remember atomic bomb victims

Hundreds of people will gather in Tavistock Square today (6 August) to remember victims of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
6 Aug 2012

Nuclear disasters are lessons for generations, says Japanese theologian

A Japanese theologian whose grandfather survived Hiroshima says that nuclear disasters should remind people of responsibilities to future generations.
7 Aug 2011

Hiroshima and Nagasaki must never happen again, says WCC chief

The head of the World Council of Churches has said that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are nuclear tragedies that must never be repeated.
8 Aug 2010

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: active remembrance

Sixty-five years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, says Olav Fykse Tveit, more and more people are working to rekindle the vision of a world without nuclear weapons.
6 Aug 2010

World urged to 'choose life', 65 years after Hiroshima

The General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) has urged the world to “choose life” on the 65th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Japan.
2 Aug 2010

Life, hope and the horrors of Hiroshima

Visiting the Hiroshima and Nagasaki exhibition currently on display in central London is an emotionally charged experience.
1 Aug 2010

Hiroshima survivor opens London exhibition on effects of nuclear arms

A survivor of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima has urged an audience in London to tackle the root causes of war, marking the sixty-fifth anniversary of the bombing.
27 Jul 2010

Listening to survivors to commemorate Hiroshima

Shoso Kamomoto, a survivor of the nuclear attack on Japan, will speak during memorial events in London marking the 65th anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
10 Apr 2010

Statue that survived Nagasaki bomb displayed in New York

A statue of the Virgin Mary that part-survived the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki is to be exhibited in New York ahead of an international non-proliferation conference.

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