New Japanese cardinal says Church must press for abolition of nuclear weapons as atomic bomb survivors win Nobel prize

Japan’s top Catholic prelate, recently named a cardinal by Pope Francis, has said that the Catholic Church in the country will not forget what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and must continue to press for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

Cardinal-designate Isao Kikuchi made his comments in response to the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to a group of atomic bomb survivors from the two Japanese cities that the US dropped atomic bombs on in the space of four days in August of 1945 during World War II.