A decade later, the warlord ordered the executions of 26 Catholics, including Franciscan missionaries and Japanese converts. The youngest martyr, a 12-year-old boy named Luis Ibaraki, reportedly ...

"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 ...

Shigemi Fukahori, a Japanese Catholic who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945 and who was an advocate for peace ...

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 ...

and seventeen Japanese Catholics were crucified in Nagasaki, prompting recriminations among the religious orders that were fighting over the right to evangelize Japan. In 1600 Pope Clement XIII ...