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The bell, which was reproduced and returned by a group of Americans, is shown to the media at the Urakami Cathedral, nearly 80 years after the cathedral was destroyed by the U.S. atomic bombing near the end of World War, in Nagasaki, western Japan, on May 15, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP)

Nagasaki cathedral blesses a bell that replaces one destroyed by the U.S. atomic bomb

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

In this Nov. 16, 2019, photo, Japanese Archbishop Mitsuaki Takami, who heads Nagasaki's Catholic community of 60,000, the biggest in Japan, speaks in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary that was damaged in the A-bomb attack, at the Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki, southern Japan. Pope Francis will start his first official visit to Japan in Nagasaki, ground zero for the Christian experience in a nation where the Catholic leader once dreamed of living as a missionary. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Rich in dramatic Catholic history, Nagasaki awaits the pope

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press