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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“If you do not fill it with Christianity,” MacArthur warned, “it will be filled with communism.” He called for 1,000 American missionaries to go to Japan, and more than 1,500 responded ...

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 ...

It led him to convert to Christianity, and later, to go to seminary and become a preacher. Shindo said that Japan’s majority religious traditions of Shinto and Buddhism also discuss the theme of ...