Plans unveiled to bring Nagasaki's A-bombed Virgin Mary to U.S.

The Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki and others on Monday unveiled plans to bring the surviving head of a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary that was destroyed in the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki to the United States for the first time in 16 years.The statue fragment will be brought to New York later this month for a conference to review the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and then to Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the nuclear weapons were developed.It is hoped the head will be put on public display at the U.N. headquarters and in Los Alamos.It will be brought to the Unit…READ FULL ARTICLE