{"id":74703,"date":"2019-11-18T11:04:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T11:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=74703"},"modified":"2019-11-18T11:04:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T11:04:37","slug":"pope-to-visit-hiroshima-on-anti-nuclear-weapon-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pope-to-visit-hiroshima-on-anti-nuclear-weapon-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope to visit Hiroshima on anti-nuclear weapon mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pope Francis, who years ago hoped to be a missionary in Japan, travels to the sites of the world\u2019s only atomic attacks this week seeking a ban on nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Argentine pontiff, 82, flies to Asia on Tuesday, where he will first visit Thailand and then Japan, including the two cities destroyed by devastating US nuclear attacks during the Second World War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will arrive in Thailand on Wednesday before flying on to Japan on Saturday, where he will stay until November 26.Sunday is set to be a marathon day with visits to Nagasaki and Hiroshima, where at least 74,000 people and 140,000 people respectively, were killed by the atomic bombs attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The August 6, 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and of Nagasaki three days later contributed to Japan\u2019s surrender and the end of the Second World War on August 15, months after Nazi Germany capitulated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Father Yoshio Kajiyama, director of the Jesuit social centre in Tokyo, was born in Hiroshima shortly after the war and is eagerly awaiting the pope\u2019s anti-nuclear speech.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis, who years ago hoped to be a missionary in Japan, travels to the sites of the world\u2019s only atomic attacks this week seeking a ban on nuclear weapons. The Argentine pontiff, 82, flies to Asia on Tuesday, where he will first visit Thailand and then Japan, including the two cities destroyed by devastating [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74705,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74703\/revisions\/74705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}