Christians from Japan and around the world joined together in an Aug. 5 march to the Catholic Memorial Cathedral for World Peace in Hiroshima, Japan, as part of the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the U.S. dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city. (CNS photo / Paul Jeffrey)
by GSR Staff
“The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.”
- Thomas Merton from Section 7 of No Man is an Island, Shambala Publications, Inc. ©The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemane, 1955 and renewed by The Trustees of Merton Legacy Trust, 1983.
Today is the 70th anniversary of the United States' use of an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Three days later, it would also drop an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Aug. 9, 1945.
Read Jan Cebula's Too long for peace, published on Global Sisters Report Aug. 6, 2015, for a reflection on the existence of nuclear weapons and resources for activism and education related to abolishing them.