Christianity has long been a powerful force in South Korean society and its battles over democracy. South Korea is among the ...

It led him to convert to Christianity, and later, to go to seminary and become a preacher. Shindo said that Japan’s majority ...

Much earlier, in 1571, the Jesuit Francisco Cabral brought Christianity to the people of ... These devotees and other hidden Christians in Japan astonishingly managed to continue their faith ...

In many places surveyed, 20% or more of all adults have left their childhood religious group. Christianity and Buddhism have ...

Others 7% Some scholars believe the Nestorian version of Christianity existed in Japan in the 6th century. While such claims are debatable, documents show that the Portuguese, who established the sea ...

For more than 200 years, until an isolated Japan opened its doors to the West in 1868, Christianity survived in scattered communities, which perhaps explains why Shingo’s so-called Christian ...

A Japanese court ordered the dissolution of the Unification Church in Japan, following a government request spurred by the investigation into the 2022 assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ...

The Unification Church, a religious movement derived from Christianity, has had deep connections to world politics for decades. But the shooting of Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe might ...