Dear friends,
As we commemorate the World Interfaith Harmony Week, we invite you to join us in requesting the United Nations Secretary-General to ring the UN Peace Bell on 6 August 2025, to remember the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and to reinforce the founding principles of the United Nations.
Voices for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons (Voices), an active part of the United Religions Initiative, began Nuclear Prayer Day on 6 August 2022 to remember the past and to create a safer future.
Voices has invited the world to add prayers, meditation and actions to call for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons annually on 6 August.
To honor those who were killed and injured in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, along with all those injured in the creation and testing of nuclear weapons,
To honor the first UN General Assembly resolution on the elimination of nuclear weapons this 80th anniversary year, and
To recognize the Treaties, Resolutions and work of the UN in promote nuclear disarmament and abolition,
We request the UN to ring the UN Peace Bell on 6 August as a very special way to call for a world that never uses nuclear weapons again.
If you support this initiative, please consider adding your name in the form: https://bit.ly/UNpeacebell.
Prayerfully,
The Rt. Rev. William E. Swing
Founding Trustee and President Emeritus, United Religions Initiative
Founding Member, Voices for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Monica Willard
2025 Nuclear Prayer Day Co-Chair
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