Nagasaki Cathedral Mourns Devastating Atomic Bomb 70 Years Later

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) â€" Just after dawn Sunday, the faithful filed into Urakami Cathedral in the Japanese city of Nagasaki for a Mass tinged with sadness.

Seventy years ago, a U.S.-dropped atomic bomb detonated about 500 meters (550 yards) from the church, killing two priests who were hearing confessions and about 30 other people inside. The more than 70,000 who died in Nagasaki in the Aug. 9, 1945, bombing included 8,500 of the cathedral's 12,000 parishioners, decimating Japan's largest Christian community.