TACOMA, Washington, March 18. -- Some of the leaders of religious thought in Japan are endeavoring to choose between Buddhism, Shintoism, and Christianity as the future religion of the empire.

The Unification Church has had close ties to world politics for decades, but a court ruling in Japan could be the end of the organisation.

Major Religions: Folk Shinto 51.8%, Buddhism 34.9%, Shinto sects 4%, Christianity 2.3%, Others 7% Some scholars believe the Nestorian version of Christianity existed in Japan in the 6th century. While ...

Christianity is currently the world's largest religion with over 2 billion followers. Beginning with the son of a Jewish carpenter, the religion was spread around the world first by Jesus's ...

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 phenomenon that began in the 17th century, when Christianity was banned and all missionaries were expelled ... It was in March 1585 that a delegation from Japan first arrived in Rome to be ...

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 ...