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Pope Francis calls for elimination of nuclear weapons

On: March 29, 2017

Rome: Pope Francis has called for a “collective and concerted” multilateral effort to eliminate nuclear weapons, telling a United Nations conference working on a treaty to prohibit such weapons that international peace and stability “cannot be based on a false sense of security, on the threat of mutual destruction orContinue Reading

Octogenarian nun braves prison term to oppose nuclear weapons

By: Matters India

On: May 23, 2015

In: Features

ROSEMONT, PENNSYLVANIA: Two white-haired nuns stepped forward and embraced each other tightly. One has been living in a convent in a quiet Philadephia suburb. The other has spent the last two years in federal prison, charged with sabotage, trespassing, and destroying government property as part of a peaceful protest inContinue Reading