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- Apr 7, 2020
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Youth, interfaith dialogue, and peace dominate Pope’s foreign trips in 2019
- Dec 30, 2019
Three major themes, all among the top priorities of Pope Francis’s pontificate, were front and center during his foreign trips in 2019.
Cries of abuse in Catholic Church start to be heard in Japan
- Dec 14, 2019
The clergy sex abuse crisis is only beginning to be looked at in countries like Japan.
Pope visits Jesuit Japan community that could have been his
- Nov 26, 2019
Pope Francis wrapped up his visit to Japan in a very personal way Tuesday, spending the morning with his Jesuit confreres in the community that would have been his own had his dream to be a missionary come true.
Pope says parents cried over atom bombings
- Nov 25, 2019
Pope Francis has told Japanese Emperor Naruhito that he remembers seeing his parents cry over the news of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 74 years ago.
Powerful nations protect all life, pope says in Japan
- Nov 25, 2019
Beauty, creation and each human life are gifts of God to be treasured and shared, not enslaved to current societal ideas of what is valuable, perfect or productive, Pope Francis said at a Mass in the famous Tokyo Dome.
Japanese boxer formerly on death row attends pope’s Mass
- Nov 25, 2019
A former Japanese professional boxer who spent 48 years in prison for murders he says he did not commit was among some 50,000 people greeting Pope Francis as he entered Tokyo Dome stadium to celebrate Mass on Monday.
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