Seventy nine years ago, August 6, 1945, an American B-29 dropped the first deployed atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Roughly 80,000 people were killed instantly, while tens of thousands more would die in the months that followed. On August 9 another atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, killing another estimated 40,000 people.
It is critically important that people across the globe continue to recall the brutality of nuclear weapons and renew our commitment to pray for peace and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
Please read the letter below recalling these sad anniversaries and learn what is happening today advance our efforts of promoting peace.
Please join us for Mass this Friday, August 9 at 12:10 at St. James Cathedral in Seattle as we come together to celebrate the Eucharist and implore the Prince of Peace for his precious gift for our world.
Within the letter you will find a link to the Peace Pilgrimage booklet from our Pilgrimage of Peace to Japan last August. I also draw your attention to the Partnership formalized between the Arch/Bishops of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Santa Fe and Seattle and our invitation to other Dioceses and Organizations globally to join us in our work for a World Without Nuclear Weapons.
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