Pope Francis takes his mission to ban nuclear weapons this week to the only places where they were used in war, visiting the World War Two ground zeros of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as part of a tour of Japan and Thailand, nations with tiny but well respected Catholic communities that make up less than 1% of the population in each country.

Pope takes anti-nuke campaign to Japan
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