{"id":36664,"date":"2018-01-02T09:32:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T09:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/the-fruit-of-war-pope-francis-prints-photo-of\/"},"modified":"2018-01-02T14:23:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T14:23:50","slug":"the-fruit-of-war-pope-francis-prints-photo-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/the-fruit-of-war-pope-francis-prints-photo-of\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The fruit of war&#8217;: Pope Francis prints photo of Nagasaki victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The photo captures a boy carrying his dead brother on his shoulders while he waits for his turn at the crematory. It was taken by US Marine photographer Joe O&#8217;Donnell shortly after the bombs were dropped at the end of World War II.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the world&#8217;s Roman Catholics asked that &#8220;the fruit of war&#8221; be written in the back of the card along with his signature &#8220;Franciscus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A short caption explains the content and origin of the photo, it reads in part: &#8220;The young boy&#8217;s sadness is expressed only in his gesture of biting his lips which are oozing blood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the bombs dropped by the US on Nagasaki and Hiroshima forced Japan&#8217;s surrender and ended World War II in 1945, O&#8217;Donnell spent four years documenting the aftermath in the two cities, according to Library of Congress records.<\/p>\n<p>His photos were published in the book titled &#8220;Japan 1945: A US. Marine&#8217;s Photographs from Ground Zero.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s senior Vatican analyst John Allen wrote on his website: &#8220;Though release of the photo in the run-up to New Year&#8217;s does not add anything substantive to the pontiff&#8217;s positions, it&#8217;s nevertheless the first time Francis has asked that a specific image be circulated in the holiday season, suggesting he believes its message is especially relevant at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Pope has previously condemned nuclear weapons and highlighted the impact of conflict on children, Allen wrote.<\/p>\n<p>With CNN<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23609 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ijfce.jpg\" alt=\"The photo captures a boy carrying his dead brother on his shoulders while he waits for his turn at the crematory.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23608 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/jwusz-2.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial View of Hiroshima; three weeks after the bombing\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis is having cards printed and distributed showing a 1945 photo of victims of the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki along with the words &#8220;the fruit of war.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[2883],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-susannah-cullinane"],"bylines":[{"id":2883,"name":"Susannah Cullinane","slug":"susannah-cullinane","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2883,"name":"Susannah Cullinane","slug":"susannah-cullinane","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36664"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36664"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}