Papal Cyprus and Greece visit
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Catholics in Osaka not left out of Pope’s Japan visit
Nov 25, 2019
The Catholic faithful of the Archdiocese of Osaka are eagerly participating in Pope Francis’ Apostolic Journey to Japan, according to a local bishop.
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‘My ancestors passed on the faith as hidden Christians in Japan’
Nov 25, 2019
As Pope Francis pays homage to Japan’s Catholic martyrs, one descendant of the “hidden Christians” says his ancestors left him a witness of faith.
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At Nagasaki ground zero, Pope denounces 'unspeakable horror' of nuclear weapons
Nov 25, 2019
At the ground zero site of the 1945 nuclear attack on Nagasaki, Pope Francis said the threat of using nuclear weapons is not the way to build peace and shared responsibility in the human family, reiterating the Church’s commitment to peace.
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The silence of Hiroshima and the cry of the Pope
Nov 25, 2019
Pope Francis denounces the money squandered on the manufacture of atomic weapons as “an affront crying out to heaven".
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Pope in Japan: Witness of Catholic martyrs confirms us in faith
Nov 25, 2019
Visiting the Monument to the Martyrs in Nagasaki, Pope Francis describes the Japanese martyrs as a living memory, and a spur to renewed evangelization in Japan.
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Ten thousand Vietnamese faithful in Bangkok for the Pope: "When will he come to Vietnam?"
Nov 25, 2019
At least 3 thousand faithful came from Vietnam; another 7,000 are migrants in Thailand. Happiness: is seeing the Pope "at least once in a lifetime".
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Be witnesses of hope in the face of evil, Francis urges Catholics in Nagasaki
Nov 25, 2019
On the Feast of Christ the King Sunday, Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to not be indifferent to evil, but to bear witness to hope and to the kingdom of God still to come.
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Pope Francis lands in Japan, where he once hoped to be a missionary
Nov 25, 2019
In a meeting with Bishops in Tokyo Saturday, Pope Francis recalled his former desire to be a missionary to Japan, praising those who carried the faith there before him.
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What does it mean to be Japanese and Catholic? Pope Francis in Japan raises the question
Nov 24, 2019
The arrival of Pope Francis has revitalized a conversation about what happens to Japanese identity when Christianity enters the mix.
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Pope in Japan: Nuclear power and young people at heart meeting with bishops
Nov 24, 2019
Francis recalled that as a young man he wanted to come as a missionary to the Land of the Rising Sun. "In Japan the Church is small and Catholics are a minority" (536 thousand, 0.4 percent of the population), and evangelization requires commitment to "a humble, daily witness and dialogue with other religious traditions ". No mention of the crisis that Hong Kong is experiencing in telegrams to the heads of state of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Sunday Reflection
Jesus did not turn away from His mission
Today, Palm or Passion Sunday, is the first day of Holy Week, the high point of the Church’s year, climaxing in the Easter Triduum: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday.