Click here for PDF version of this statement. For the 77th year, on August 6 and 9 hearts and minds in every land turn to the two citiesdestroyed by atomic bombs in 1945. Events this year call special attention to the epoch-makingtragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. New weaponry and autocratic actions sharpen fears ofnuclear annihilation.
The new treaty banning nuclear weapons took collective steps towards nuclear abolition at its first meeting in Vienna (Austria) from 21 to 23 June. Some 75 governments and 100 international and civil society organisations, including a delegation from Pax Christi International with members from eight countries. The TPNW’s First Meeting of States Parties took place
Pax Christi International has joined faith communities and organisations from around the world in an intefaith statement for the first meeting of states parties to the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Click here for PDF version. Joint Interfaith Statement Welcoming the First Meeting of the States Parties to the Treatyon the
