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Welcoming the poor and marginalized, caring for people suffering from leprosy abandoned by their families, working for peace in a country still scarred by civil war. These are the tasks the Church needs to take charge of at the end of the Jubilee Year...

Translation: “The 26 Japanese Saints” Today, February 6th, the universal Church honors and remembers the 26 Martyrs of Nagasaki, consisting of native Japanese Catholics and foreign missionaries who suffered martyrdom for their Catholic Faith...

On February 5, 1597, by order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the regent and de facto military ruler of Japan, 26 Christians were crucified in the port town of Nagasaki. Six Franciscan missionaries (from Spain, Mexico, and India), three Japanese Jesuits, and...

Born: 1562, Tsunokuni, Japan Died: 5 February 1597, Nagasaki, Japana Canonized: 8 June 1862 by Pope Pius IX Christianity spread like wildfire in sixteenth-century Japan. By the 1580s, less than forty years after Francis Xavier introduced the faith...

By Fabrizio the sailor ~ When and how I initially became aware of the relevance of conditioning and overcame the primary conditioning: the claim that “The Bible is the word of God.” English: Sacred Scriptures Bethel Edition Bible (Photo...