The pontiff said that even after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they continued to develop and test nuclear weapons in vain.
Pope Francis condemned the danger of using nuclear weapons against Ukraine. This was reported by EuroNews.
“Now, in fact, the threat of what we fear and hope will never return is obvious: the use of nuclear weapons, which, even after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, continue to be developed and tested in vain, ” said Francis in his address to several thousand. people, recited after a separate prayer by different religious groups.
He recalled how, on October 25, 1962, in the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Pope John XXIII made a radio address to the leaders of the day, urging them to move the world from the brink.
“Today, the world is seriously disturbed, attacked and trampled, and it is in Europe, on the same continent that experienced the horror of two world wars in the last century,” said the head of the Catholic Church.
Earlier, Pope Francis announced, amid the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the need to reform the United Nations (UN).
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