Holy Father Pope Francis on board that papal plane to Chile for his Apostolic Visit, shared a photo of a Japanese boy waiting at a crematorium in Nagasaki to bury his younger brother and His Holiness expressed his fears in the face of threats of nuclear war, he had ordered cards to be printed and distributed to the journalists with the photo on one side and the words: ‘the fruits of war’ on other side, along with his signature.
As reported by Vatican Radio, Holy Father remarked that he was very moved by the image and wanted to share it, because of his fears that the world was moving once again towards the use of nuclear weapons.
Last year, in a Vatican conference on disarmament, His Holiness Pope Francis had reflected that “The possession of nuclear weapons is to be firmly condemned because they exist in the service of a mentality of fear that affects not only the parties in conflicts but the entire human race.”
