Amid the ruins, just 500 meters from ground zero, were the collapsed roof, damaged pillars, and charred sculptures of the Urakami Cathedral, the locus of a vibrant Catholic community spawned during ...

grew up hearing stories from his relatives of the suffering that many in Nagasaki endured after the bombing and is reminded of his determination for peace every time he visits Urakami Cathedral.

Christianity flourished again in Nagasaki. After 32 years, a huge Gothic cathedral – the largest in the Far East – was consecrated in 1914. That building ceased to exist at on 9 August 1945 ...

NAGASAKI -- One of the two bells from the former Urakami Cathedral here, which was destroyed by the U.S. atomic bombing during World War II, was recently unveiled after being restored with ...

The ruins of the original Urakami Cathedral is depicted in a stained glass window at the rebuilt church in Nagasaki, Japan. (Meghan Kruger/The Washington Post) Meghan Kruger is associate opinions ...

At first, Kolbe stayed near Nagasaki’s Oura Cathedral, founded by French missionary priests in 1864, to serve a growing community of foreign merchants as Japan reopened to overseas trade.

It exploded more than a mile off target, detonating almost directly over the cathedral (the largest in the Far East) in the Urakami district, home to most of Nagasaki’s 10,000 Catholics.

The six-member group was making a pilgrimage to the United States to present a replica of a cross from the Nagasaki cathedral that survived the bombing to Wilmington College in Ohio. The original ...