Bomb attempt targets Protestant church

NEPAL: Defused devices follow blast at Christian NGO in Kathmandu five days earlier

Bomb threat warning from Mindanao police

PHILIPPINES: Police warn that militants could be targetting some churches in Cotabato City, in the southern Philippines' Mindanao, reports philSTAR.com.

Film to tell story of Nagasaki hero

JAPAN: A docu-drama under planning seeks to tell the story Dr Takashi Nagai, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Catholic convert and dedicated peace activist, the Independent Catholic News reports.

A new ‘peace culture’

JAPAN: The Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation's Steve Leeper talks to Joshua J. McElwee of the National Catholic Reporter about how experiences like Hiroshima can help develop a culture of peace.

‘Good’ and ‘Evil’ in wartime bombings

INTERNATIONAL: It is a weakness of human nature that we forgive in our friends what we despise in our enemies. How else could anyone offer in-principle support for the indiscriminate slaughter of non-combatants?, asks Zac Alstin on Eureka Street.

An account from 1945

JAPAN: The UK's Catholic Herald publishes recollections of Mother Bernardine Goulter, a Sacred Heart nun who was present when the atomic bomb fell on Nagasaki.

Hiroshima marks 66th anniv of bombing

INTERNATIONAL: As Japan continues to deal with a nuclear plant meltdown, the country marks the 66th anniversary of the bombing at Hiroshima, writes Joshua J. McElwee in the National Catholic Reporter.