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For 75th Anniversary of Bombings, Pope Sends Message to Hiroshima

Remembering the 75th anniversary of the bombings, Pope Francis has sent a special message to Hiroshima.

In the July 15 message published on the Hiroshima for Peace website, the Pope offered cordial greetings to the organizers and participants in the seventy-fifth solemn anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, and in a special way to the hibakusha survivors of the original tragedy.

Francis described himself as ‘privileged’ to be able to come in person to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during his Apostolic Visit in November last year, which, he said, “allowed me to reflect at the Peace Memorial in Hiroshima and at Hypocenter Park in Nagasaki on the destruction of human life and property wrought in these two cities during those terrible days of war three quarters of a century ago.”

Praise the Lord

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