Papal Cyprus and Greece visit

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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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  ‘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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  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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  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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  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 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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  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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  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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  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.

  
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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.