World Council of Churches official says ‘a world free from nuclear weapons is possible’

[World Council of Churches] Peter Prove, director of the World Council of Churches Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, spoke on a nuclear weapons-free world during “The Audacity of Peace” gathering in Berlin on Sept. 11.

Prove, part of a panel discussion, noted that a world free from nuclear weapons is not just possible but necessary, and he endorsed the comprehensive approach of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as a legal means to achieve this goal.

He also noted that the World Council of Churches has adopted a position of categorical opposition to nuclear weapons since its founding in 1948.

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