Vatican Prime Minister Petro Parolin warned that “threats to use nuclear weapons amid the conflict in Ukraine are bringing the world closer to nuclear war.”

“As long as nuclear weapons exist, we cannot exclude the possibility of their use, which threatens the very existence of mankind,” Parolin said on the occasion of the International Day for Nuclear Disarmament. How close the world is to nuclear war.

Earlier, Pope Francis pointed out that “the use of atomic energy for military purposes is a crime against human dignity and any possible future of mankind”, calling the possession of nuclear weapons “immoral” and calling for them to be abandoned.

In November 2019, the Pope made an apostolic trip to Japan, the main topic of which was issues related to nuclear weapons. He also visited the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and delivered sermons condemning the crime of using nuclear weapons.