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Vatican Secretary of State demands nuclear disarmament in UN speech
September 27, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: “The only way to avoid a nuclear war is the total elimination of nuclear weapons,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin proclaimed in a September 26 address to a UN meeting on disarmament.
The Vatican Secretary of State decried the “troubling reliance by nuclear-weapons States on nuclear deterrence,” saying that expenditures on nuclear arsenals would better go to serving the needs of the poor.
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