Holy See warns against ‘aggressive nuclear rhetoric’

Holy See Warns of Risk of New Nuclear Weapons, Deplores Increase in Military Spending

Courtesy photo Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, the Holy See’s permanent observer to the United Nations in New York, speaks on Aug. 29, 2025, the International Day Against Nuclear Tests. The Holy See’s representative noted that since the first nuclear test, conducted on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert, more than 2,000 nuclear tests have been carried out.

Holy See warns against ‘aggressive nuclear rhetoric’

Marking the International Day Against Nuclear Tests, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations stresses the moral duty to support affected communities and to advance toward a world free of nuclear weapons. Read all

Holy See tells nations at UN to end threat of nuclear weapons, even as deterrence - The Record Newspaper

Taeko Oshioka, a member of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo) looks for visitors to sign a petition to call on the Japanese government to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, in front of the preserved Atomic Bomb Dome after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city in 1945, on the following day of Nihon Hidankyo winning the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, at the Hiroshima Peac…