“If vengeance in daily life is for God (Rom 12:19), surely the vengeance of nuclear holocaust is not for human hands. Our place is to labour for life with God.”
From a report presented to the World Council of Churches Assembly in Porto Allegre, 2006.
“The truth of peace requires that all - whether those governments which openly or secretly possess nuclear arms, or those planning to acquire them - agree to change their course by clear and firm decisions, and strive for a progressive and concerted nuclear disarmament.”
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI 1 January 2006
See www.zenit.org/article-14820?l=english
“To plan a strategy around such weapons is to be defeated by them. To threaten such an outrage against humanity and its world is to begin to lose one's moral and human dignity. To work for a world free from nuclear arms is to work for the sake of that moral and human dignity.”
Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, September 2009
"There are strategic, pragmatic and moral reasons why this country should set an international example in leading the way on the 'road to zero' for all nuclear weapons. We cannot continue to threaten other countries by our possession of nuclear weapons, and at the same time denounce theirs. Apart from issues of cost, it would clearly be a safer world without nuclear weapons and we trust that those negotiating in the nuclear non proliferation treaty convention will act with commitment to achieve this end on behalf of the people of the United Kingdom. Most Christians believe that economic, social and political action is the best way to build positive relationships with countries that are perceived as a threat, in a world where peace, justice and security go hand in hand."
Most Rev Dr Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales
"There can be no place for weapons of mass destruction in a world that God loves so much."
The Right Reverend Alan McDonald, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
