The secretary of MWC’s Peace Commission signed on to an interfaith statement on nuclear abolition. 

We invite your prayers and actions for peace in concert with the statement: 

Our spiritual traditions inform our perspectives: while humanity is capable of inflicting grave, even apocalyptic harm, humanity is also capable of collaborating in solidarity for life and well-being.  

We lament the equating of nuclear weapons with technological, strategic, or political advancement, or with the assurance of safety. We reject the equating of the nuclear power industry as a symbol of decolonization or environmentalism….   

Our ethics and spiritualities insist that we join together for nuclear abolition; attend to the historic and ongoing harms of nuclear disasters; and lift up our sincere prayers and efforts so that all lands, communities and beings may be safe, healthy and peaceful.  

And so, as people of faith we bring our gifts, insights, and positionalities to forward efforts for peace, right relationship, and nuclear abolition – motivated and guided not only by the apocalyptic terror of nuclear weapons and the intolerable suffering caused by nuclearism, but also by the powerful collaborative work of justice and peace.