TOKYO (AP) — A Nagasaki cathedral has blessed the final piece to complete its restoration nearly 80 years after being destroyed by the second U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Japan: a reproduction of its ...

Going into the third year of the pandemic, it’s become a ritual. The bell will ring on Monday for 900,000 dead – “a figure I can’t even comprehend,” the Rev. Randy Hollerith said. The cathedral has ...

The bell, which was reproduced and returned by a group of Americans, is shown to the media at the Urakami Cathedral, nearly 80 years after the cathedral was destroyed by the U.S. atomic bombing near ...