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Christianity in Japan is among the nation's minority religions in terms of individuals who state an explicit affiliation or faith. In 2022, there were 1.26 million Christians [1] in Japan, down from 1.9 million [2] Christians in Japan in 2019. [3]
The Christian martyrs of the 1622 Great Genna Martyrdom. 16th/17th-century Japanese painting. Persecution flared episodically and over a period of 15 years, between 1617 and 1632, 205 missionaries and native Christians are known to have been killed for their faith, 55 of them during the Great Genna Martyrdom, a further 50 during the Great ...
Buddhist monks and Shinto priests would face persecution by being forcefully evicted out of the temples which were then reused as Christian facilities. [19] [20] Some Christian daimyos also ordered the forced marriage of monks. [19] Most Japanese Christians lived in Kyushu, but Christianization was now a regional phenomenon and had a national ...
The persecution of Christians has continued to occur during the 21st century. Christianity is the largest world religion and its adherents live across the globe. Approximately 10% of the world's Christians are members of minority groups which live in non-Christian-majority states. [12]
In September 2009, then chairman Martin Lessenthin, [123] issued a report estimating that 80% of acts of religious persecution around the world were aimed at Christians at that time. [124] [125] According to the World Evangelical Alliance, over 200 million Christians are denied fundamental human rights solely because of their faith. [126]
Many Catholics went underground, becoming hidden Christians (隠れキリシタン, kakure kirishitan), while others lost their lives. Only after the Meiji Restoration, was Christianity re-established in Japan. The first group of martyrs, known as the Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan (1597), were canonized by the Church in 1862 by Pope Pius IX.
Jul. 27—Sixty-one of the world's 196 nations actively persecute Christians who, ostracized, imprisoned, beaten, tortured, raped and murdered, stay just as determined to hold onto to their faith ...
Kakure Kirishitan (Japanese: 隠れキリシタン, lit. 'hidden Christians') is a modern term for a member of the Catholic Church in Japan who went underground at the start of the Edo period in the early 17th century (lifted in 1873) due to Christianity's repression by the Tokugawa shogunate (April 1638). [1] [2] [3]