Pope to seek nuclear weapons abolition in Hiroshima, Nagasaki speech

Pope Francis will call on the world to abolish nuclear weapons when he makes speeches in Hiroshima and Nagasaki next month, the Vatican said Wednesday.He will also visit Tokyo, meeting survivors of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan in March 2011. The trip, from Nov. 23 to 26, will mark the first visit to Japan by a pontiff in 38 years."I feel deeply impressed and have much respect for Japan when I read the story of the martyrs, and the experiences of the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki," Pope Francis told a group of Japanese journalists, according to Vatican Ne…READ FULL ARTICLE