Photo Gallery: Let the bells of Nagasaki echo to the world - 80th anniversary Nagasaki Peace Memorial Masses and interreligious dialogues to pray for world peace

After a Peace Memorial Mass at Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of that city, people participated in a torchlight procession to Nagasaki Peace Park. Urakami Cathedral, seen in the background, was rebuilt and dedicated in 1959 on the site of the original cathedral destroyed in the bombing on Aug. 9, 1945. The head of a statue of Mary recovered in the rubble of the original cathedral after the bombing was carried in the procession. Joining the procession were U.S. college students participating in a Pilgrimage of Peace to commemorate the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Catholic Standard photos by Mihoko Owada)