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 ...

THIS month marks two anniversaries that, if we lived in a world with historical memory, would be front-page news.August 6 and ...

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 ...

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

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?

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

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

It's been 80 years of talking peace while preparing for nuclear war.

Together, the unprecedented detonations put an end to the most devastating war in the experience of the world. Since those ...

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

The atomic bombs may have saved "countless" lives, but if Truman had dropped one on a remote island nearby as a demonstration ...

If Japan had not marched toward war, ordinary people would not have suffered immense hardship. Yet, adequate compensation has ...