The Martyrs Museum honors 26 Japanese Christians who were arrested in 1597 and forced to march barefoot for 30 days to Nagasaki, where they were hung on crosses and martyred on the Nishizaka Hill ...

Northern NSW resident Cherry Watts was washing her newborn sister's nappies when her city was destroyed by an atomic bomb at ...

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 ...

Prayer is the most powerful means to bring peace to souls, to give them happiness, because it brings them closer to God’s love. … Only through prayer can o ...

As numbers of atomic bomb survivors decline, can such deeply personal, traumatic memories truly be passed on to someone who did not live through them?

The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ...

For Archbishop Wester, the issue is close to home. Located within his archdiocese is the Los Alamos Laboratory, and he noted ...

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

Survivors’ voices and new memorials mark the grim milestone. “This isn’t a partisan issue. It’s a human issue,” says Dr. Ira Helfand—as global stockpiles grow for the first time since the Cold War.

Takashi Nagai was a medical doctor and atomic bomb survivor. But it was his radical conversion to Christ that started a new ...