This year is the 61st anniversary of the bombingof Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.  An interfaith prayer vigil will be held from 6:00 PM until 7:00 PM, Sunday, August 6, 2006, at Rutledge Chapel on the University of South Carolina Horseshoe in Columbia, SC.  People of all beliefs, races, and nationalities are invited to join together in remembrance of all victims of nuclear weapons.

We gather to prayerfully remember the men, women, and children who died August 6 in Hiroshima and August 8 in Nagasaki in 1945, and the ones who suffered alingering death over time.  We also hold in the light the leaders who made the decision and gave the orders, the ones who delivered the bombs, and to everyone everywhere in our world today who has been damaged in any way by nuclear weapons and their production.

The vigil is co-sponsored by the Columbia Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and the Carolina Peace Resource Center in unity with members of all faith and peace and social justice communities.  We gather on August 6 to remind each other and the world to watch and take care, and to pray another atomic bomb is never used.  Everyone is welcome to join us.

For further information, please contact Rebecca or Harry Rogers at (803) 252-2221.

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