▶️ Pope Francis attended a ceremony in Hiroshima, Japan, Sunday, Nov. 24, to remember the country's atomic bombing victims.
👉 The ceremony took place at Hiroshima's Peace Memorial site, and was watched by a large audience including representatives of various religions. Francis declared the possession of nuclear weapons "immoral" and appealed for the abolition of nuclear weapons, saying their mere possession is perverse and indefensible. Francis traveled to Hiroshima and Nagasaki to demand that world powers renounce their nuclear arsenals, declaring the use and possession of atomic bombs an “immoral” crime and a dangerous waste.
He restated his support for a 2017 treaty to ban nuclear weapons, approved by nearly two-thirds of U.N. members but opposed by big nuclear powers who say it could undermine nuclear deterrence. The United States dropped a bomb on Aug. 9, 1945, instantly killing about 27,000 people in Nagasaki. It was the second city hit by an atomic bomb during World War II. In Hiroshima, the site of the first blast, the bomb instantly killed about 78,000 people. (AFP/Reuters/AP)
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