Coventry Quaker Jo Hallett will lead an origami session making ‘cranes of peace’. Photo: by Neslihan Ozfaris
Friends mark Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day
‘Coventry’s Hiroshima Day Remembrance is a true symbol of peace and reconciliation.' Nagamine Yasumasa, Former Japanese ambassador.
Central England Quakers are preparing for their annual Coventry Hiroshima Remembrance at Coventry Cathedral. Now in its thirty-fifth year, the service will be live-streamed from the nave of Coventry Cathedral on 6 August. The day is to mark the seventy-seventh anniversary since the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima – and Nagasaki three days later – leaving more than 2000,000 dead. David Fish, from Rugby Meeting, who has been involved in the event since it began in 1987, said that it was also the eighty-second anniversary of the bombing of Coventry in world war two.