Nuclear arms buildup an ‘affront to humanity,’ says Vatican diplomat
September 19, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Speaking at the 69th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Msgr. Daniel Pacho, the Vatican undersecretary for multilateral affairs, said that military expenditures—and in particular, expenditures on nuclear weapons—are “an affront to humanity as a whole.”
The Vatican representative said that the duty of world leaders to halt the proliferation of nuclear arms “is to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, Msgr. Pacho said, “is particularly evident in the current era, when the incongruity of allocating valuable resources to developing and accumulating nuclear weapons is starkly contrasted with the fact that so many people on this planet are struggling to survive.”
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