The project is an effort to encourage U.S. Catholics to support the casting of a new bell for Nagasaki's Urakami Cathedral as ...

"One of the paradoxes of Japanese Christian history is that if all Japanese Catholics had refused to trample on the fumie and instead chosen to die as martyrs, Christianity in Japan would also ...

“So I wish my presence as a new cardinal would be a part of source of creating hope among people through my words and deeds ...

Pope Francis has appointed the archbishop of Tokyo as one of the 21 new cardinals of the Catholic Church. Kikuchi Isao became ...

The artifact was sent in reply to a missive penned by Pope Paul V, whose papacy started in 1605 and ended 1621, to offer encouragement to Japanese Catholic converts who faced persecution from ...

Do you agree with this statement? Catholic Church or Christianity used to be seen as representatives of European culture. People love European culture through paintings, food and music. So the Church ...