Meeting the descendants of Japan's 'hidden Christians'
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- As Pope Francis wraps up a four-day visit to Japan, we meet some of the country's few Christians. There are some 400,000 of them in the archipelago, making up less than 0.5 percent of the population. Christianity has a troubled history in Japan as it was banned for several centuries. Some early converts refused to abandon their faith and practiced it in secret. Our team in Nagasaki meets some of the descendants of Japan's earliest Christians.
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God Bless Japanese and Chinese Catholics and all Christians around the Universe.
All the deceased ...Rest in Peace.
@Ich Kämpfe Don't know what you are talking about
@Ich Kämpfe You are talking a load of nonsense while you use a Nazi emblem you stupid hypocrite.
There is nothing holy about paganism and witchcraft.
Why don't you talk about the persecution of Christians, probably because you are too ignorant and don't even know .
@Ich Kämpfe Christianity is about peace and respect for one another. I do not walk around with a sword, this 2021.
The world has evolved since then and you ignore the subjects of politics and ideology and the role they played in colonialism.
@Ich Kämpfe You have a very one sided view of history and also talk nonsense while you use a Nazi emblem which makes no sense.
You don't mention a word about persecution of Christians by the islamic sword or the viking sword etc.
@Ich Kämpfe You talk a load of crap.
You sound like a sad devil worshipping loser.
Japanese Christian's went through a lot during 16th Century, may their generations be blessed abundantly.
Catholic facts of Japan:
> In Nagasaki (which has historically been the most Catholic town in Japan) the convent founded by St. Maximilian Kolbe and its friars did not succumb to the bomb and the construction remained.
> A similar thing happened in Hiroshima, a house of Jesuits prayed the Rosary daily and was almost untouched by the bomb; the house was very close to the ground zero of the bomb by the way.
> Our Lady has also a confirmed apparition to sister Agnes Sasagawa in Akita.
What makes something a "confirmed apparation"?
@@kingchickenwing4887 The recognition by the Catholic episcopate through and after a deep investigation of the phenomena, the canonicity of the messages, and the private life of the seers. The purpose is to discard natural phenomenas (physical or psychological), charlatans, social adventurers and people in search of profit.
@C G It is.
@@forfebrutal2265 How can these things be verified, especially when such verification processes did not occur in the Bible?
KingChickenwing Huh?
God bless Japanese catholics 🙏
How about japanese protestants?
@@axelsprangare2579 are there any? Did they got persecuted nearly as catholics? I mean I pray for them, but catholics are close to my heart
True Catholic Martyrers
@@tigar007 Yes there are more japanese protestants than catholics. Ca 60% are protestant of all christians in Japan. Btw the pope sucks.
@@axelsprangare2579 I pray for them but for catholics even more. I pray for pope and for you.
Putting many western Catholics to shame, perhaps we can learn from them, it's not necessarily the numbers in the pews that matter, but how much they adhere to the Catholic faith.
All uropians are made conversion people they don't think scientifically
Bro They are not Catholics .They are "hidden Christian" Cuz of persecution they have not been able to separate Buddhism from Christianity
It also has become a sort of cult of ancestry mixed with some christian and buddhist ideas
@@ishidamitsunari3808 Ya but it's fine for their culture . As a Catholic I have sympathies for them .
@@rebeccaanderson5626 "Fine for their culture"? Not according to Jesus. Luke 14:33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
My prayers for all Christians in Japan, from a Catholic in the Philippines. Peace.
Though I'm a Baptist, I'll join in prayer with an amen 🙏
What about non-Christians?
I just love it how the Japanese Hidden Catholics pray at the grave sites of the martyrs, It shows that even when the word of the Bible is shared from mouth to mouth, they still mannaged to understand the theological knowledge that most Catholics don't know which is that the bodies of the dead are also the full person instead of believing that the person is just a soul!
According to Jesus, the dead are asleep.
@@earlysda incorrect
@@cryptinflame4308 John 11:11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
John 11:12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
John 11:13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
John 11:14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
That's a common misconception actually. Catholics 100% believe that the body is still an integral part of the person (along with the soul) and that's why reverence and care must be shown to the bodies of those who have passed on. We believe this because Christ's disciples showed homage onto Christ's body after his death and prior his resurrection.
@@louisgonzales4335 ya that was a new one I've never heard before. not sure where he got that from. we literally reject transgenderism and use relics for that very reason that the body and mind and soul are connected
I just became aware of the hidden Christians of Japan after watching Silence.
Me too i just did! They didn’t die for nothing they died for everything!
@@nerium9762 Not emperor, the Tokugawas are shogun, military leader of Japan.
I become aware of the ways Japan persecuted the Christians thru Silence and Samurai X
@The Matrix yup, actually not only pagans but other religions, including other branches of Christianity. I digress. It's always worth something reviewing our human history. So much yo learn.
as for me, i became aware about them (and how harsh they were persecuted) bcs of a book called ghost in tokkaido inn :(((
神は愛である / God is love ♡
Its sad many of the hidden Christians think of the established church as a different Christianity just because they have been hidden for centuries. They need to come home to what their church of Japan could have been. ❤️
Praise the Lord Jesus Christ 🙏 give strength and courage to Nagasaki and Hiroshima people in faith their land become fertile to live them with joy, happiness and faith.
I am Christian from Turkey 🇹🇷✝️
Wow 😍
Hello Paulus are u okay Are you reincarnated??
@@julitasofia5357i am okay 🤗👍
Watching a catholic japanese in a french youtube channel speaking english
Praise the Lord Jesus Christ 🙏 and mother Mary
Gregory Dsouza you’re praising Mary ?
@@solarlola5953 yes, I am praising Mother Mary because if her apparations would not have been there, then Christianity would not have been alive till date. Just think her apparations in different places and situations with different emotions. Therefore she was called in different places and situations in different names.
@@gregorydsouza1330 What "apparations"?
KingChickenwing Just like the Holy Ghost appears, Mary also appears. You are following a satanic faith that is only 500 years old.
Faith die out? It won't die out if they return to the Church, their traditions are rooted in it and it's the completion and fullness of the faith
As a fellow Believer I pray that the LORD bless them and keep them 💙✝️💚.
May they be well and stay strong always.
Thanks a lot for this report. I am thinking of moving to Japan from the US and wanted to learn more about Roman Catholicism in Japan.
Me too, I admire Japanese Catholics very much!
Japanese people Christian and non-Christian alike practise in their lives what is expected from a Christian, much more than most Christians do. Respect for elders, etiquettes, hard work, giving etc.
If you think that's the only thing that defines a Christian, you don't know what even Christian is.
Those Catholics who are criticizing / correcting people from "idolatry" do not know what they are talking about. Christians do not worship those statues they venerate them, just like you put a tomb stone on your family or your love ones grave, it is a way to remember the sacrifices that they have made and show them respect. If you saw some Christians praying in front of these so called "statue" maybe you should ask yourself why do you put a tomb stone in front of your love one grave surely it is not only to put there name, date they where born and died etc.
Yuppp. Catholicism Is Definitely Includes Blasphemy And Idolatry
@@tali2225 seriously man？You just comment here with your satanic word.You know Catholism do not pray idols like Pagan Gods.If you notice the TEN COMMANDMENTS on the 1st command says “worship your god that cab save all days and proyect you dont worship the GOD that cannot save”.So thats why dont say that the Catholism is Idolatory..
Those Statue is all saints dont say that it is the GOD.It is not mean idolatry.All saints had sacrifice for the lord our god.
@@loyloyarnesto2398 the only sacrifice that matters rose over 2000 years ago.
@@sofiabravo1994 yes,but there‘s too many saints.
Now I'm gonna play the Otomo faction and spread christianity across Japan
Lol same
Yes! Shogun 2!
Ok
@Grand Master Yoda ok protestant
God bless Japanese Christians and all Christian minorities in East Asia
This is beautiful to see🙏 amen thank you father in heaven .
The reason why Japan has a Catholic minority is because the Portuguese missionaries went to Japan in the 1500's and they converted the Japanese to Christianity.
To Catholicism
?
Do they have a protestant christians in the country as well?
@@kurumi9714
I saw a sign for a protestant church once in Utsunomia Tochigi but I dont know where it was and couldn't find it again.
Jason Palacios Christians are not Catholics. Catholics worship a different Jesus. The Bible says not to pray to idols.
My brothers and sisters, we are one. Thank you for your faithfulness.
Amazing, I never saw this ❤️🙏🏼
Very nice
Amen from Singapore
This is the reason why Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed with 2 nuclear weapons by the only American in replacement of torturing the Christianity.
that ave maria was beautiful
There is harmony in religions of peace. Practice whatever you believe but never force another to believe or murder for your beliefs.
God Bless Japan🙏
I wonder what will the Japanese Govt and its people reaction be if the pope visits Japan.
The Pope was actually visiting Japan last year.
Pope Francis visited Japan last November 2019 he met the longest serving Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo and also meet the Emperor of Japan His Majesty Emperor Naruhito in Imperial Palace in Tokyo. But few decades ago Pope Francis predessesor St. Pope John Paul II also visted Japan
He's praying some parts in Latin, by the way. The universal language of the Catholic Church.
Here in the philippines Mass is trilingual: native language and english mostly sermons, latin mostly for hymns.
In Amakusa there is a large stone with the heads of ten thousand Japanese Catholics buried under it.
oda nobunaga loves foreign and christianity he even make friend with a missionary
but toyotomi hideyoshi and tokugawa ieyasu didn't like christianity and they even banned it all over japan
because some christian incite a revolt
if only were the oda had became the shogun maybe their was a lot of christian in japan today
@Alauddin Khalji you are ignorant.! they were not forced because they were not even colonized
edit: colonized
@ElementHunter the natives of cebu converted willingly . Thats in our history books. please , dont lie for us. youre not even a filipino.
@ElementHunter your books not our book. stop lying! the natives of cebu converted willingly
@ElementHunter you are a native? we dont have the same experience under spanish colonization that im sure. one thing is the language most of your language disapeared ,you are speaking spanish and english now while we still have our own. and you have to admit theres ton of lies about thr spanish out there. just like the lie about japanese conversion by that other guy.
@ElementHunter you are a native? we dont have the same experience under spanish colonization that im sure. one thing is the language most of your language disapeared ,you are speaking spanish and english now while we still have our own. and you have to admit theres ton of lies about thr spanish out there. just like the lie about japanese conversion by that other guy.
until recently my family used to hide when they prayed
until you realize its been legal to be a christian since 1873
whose time is she talking about??
God bless all Japanese Christians, catholics, orthodox, from a russian orthodox from the US
I belive it's a mix of evangelical shinto and zen a little bit. Pictures of grandparents anyway is a shinto stuff. This is not about the book this is about the japanese way to go...
His house looks so nice lol. I love that Japanese use of space architecture.
It seems nobody said it in the comments below, but the main reason they worship as they do, and the reason their worshipping is somewhat similar to buddhist way of conducting rituals is because when chirstianity was persecuted in japan they needed to camouflage their christianity so they needed to make it look like buddhist and shintoist worship, in order to not get executed. Hence maria was easily linkable to kannon, goddess of mercy, hence no crosses were shown openly, hence the statues look more like buddhist statues than christian ones, hence they were called "kakure" or "hidden" christians.
It is a simple and well known historical fact, yet all the kneejerk "they are not christian, they are pagan" comments miss it.
Yes but I see the statues as very beautiful and the Japanese style suits the way they worship. Among the nature and with their martyrs.
Wow... god bless
This video reminds me the movie "Slience" that was directed by Martin Scorsese
God bless them
Amen
Japan are pretty tolerant of other religion. But the prosecution of the Christian came not because Japan hate a christian or anything, but because the Japanese christian was used by the Portuguese to undermine the power of the Shogun to facilitate colonization.
@Mervin Freeden Islam in East and Southeast Asia propagated exclusively via trade rather than military conquest.
The Russians handled it much better.
The missionaries who went to Japan did it without any political reasons. They did it out of their faith.
Actually, it is the other way around, many Japanese Political leaders wanted to use Catholism to have more power.
At least that’s what I could understand out of my personal researches.
It wasn’t there to undermine the shogunate, that was just what they thought would happen. Portugal bringing Christianity there was to spread what they believed in, and the Japanese have always been paranoid of outsiders.
This Abdul didn’t know about the story. Check the fact first Abdul
Wow super chatolic church....good Japan..
wow this interesting also god bless the Catholic in Japan
Is he still alive?
"Japan has Shintoism, Buddhist and Christianity, the three coexist, there's no problem. Its a sign of how tolerant Japan is.."
Ephesians 2:8-9
3:43 how wrong they are...
Are these people in communion with the Roman Catholic Church? Do they consider themselves a denomination?
God bless Japanese catholics..
Ah these are the Kakure Christians. I’m not sure about this person in the video but a small minority of them adhere to the beliefs of their ancestors. When the Portuguese missionaries left and the clergy were killed, the laypeople had to keep the spirit of Christianity alive. However, they started to develop rather unorthodox practices and beliefs due to their isolation from other Christians. Their rituals combined Latin, Portuguese, Japanese, Buddhist, and Shinto rituals. When Japan reestablished contact with the outside world, most were reintegrated into the Catholic Church where they were evangelized and their beliefs corrected into the mainstream teachings and rituals. A small minority did not follow this and kept this rather odd, syncretic form of Christianity.
Is there a movie about this?
Meleagris Gallopavo thank you!
@@pinoyfil-amsimpleliving6951 I also recommend the 1962 movie Amakusa Shirō Tokisada, also called "The Christian Revolt", or "The Revolutionary" it's on CZcams with subtitles last time I checked.
May those who suffered persecution attain paradise.
That's wrong ,a Christian cannot pray to God through idols or Budda statue
Every non Christian country should be aware of these peoples.
a thousand christians..??? m sure there are a lot more than that in Japan,since majority are orthodox christians i suppose
Roman Catholic actually
why is your comment section open but I cant tell Judy Woodriff how much I love Her every day?
so he's shinto not catholic
it usually happens that foreigners religions mixes up with local magical thinking
The sinister Catholicism.
God bless the Holy Church ⛪
May God bless and protect Japanese catholics and christians. 🙏✝️💕
My question is: how did they keep the Faith without the Sacraments for so long? 200+ years without Confession and Holy Communion. What is the secret?
Sacraments are a Vatican invention.
@@ginger942 prove it!
It's sad that it is catholicism what populated in the Asian region. I pray most have truly repented and have followed the Christ.
May God guide them and protect them. I pray the Spirit convicts them to proclaim the gospel and not hide from the world like Jesus taught in Matthew 5:14-16.
✝️
But we don't need to pray to statu because we believe in living god not status made by people
Toda Mariko was a strong Christian!
@God's blessings be with you today and beyond in Jesus Christ!!!
Syncretism is no bueno.
Yes it is.
C'est bon
Well ok, but I hope they pray FOR their ancestors, not TO their ancestors
Look into the orthodox japanese church!
Silence its good movie about those people
Praise be to God n our Lord, Jesus Christ,
Pray for our brothers n sisters in Japan!
I feel like Japanese are God long lost child and God waiting for His children to return home.
it still wrong tho praying to virgin mary , mary is a human like us the one we should pray is Jesus because hes the only who gave us all of our needs (edit) I see in the comments so they hide their christianity? but still in this video they show us they are praying to virgin mary they even do the rosary it still wrong or a sin.... and christian and catholics are different i think granpa is catholic, christians never pray to virgin mary or any saints we only pray to our only one God Jesus Christ , the word CHRISTian is the symbol of Christ/Jesus Christ. and catholic is also different catholics believes saints and praised them. But praying Japan from Philippines hoping they will learn the truth that theres a God. In Jesus name Amen 😌🙏
As much as I see the aim for harmony and peace between Shinto, Catholicism, Buddhism the end result is negative, as messianic Jew as must tell you, Jesus loves you but in the beginning Jesus was, and GOD is a jealous GOD and warn the Jewish people not to have any other gods before HIM but Shinto and Buddhism will keep you from knowing that Jesus said, “...I am the Truth.” Jesus says now today, yesterday, forever, “ whosoever believes in Me shall not perish but may have life everlasting.” Eternal life. We are living in the end times, seek Jesus before it is too late.
We don't care, jew
Catholicism has nothing to do with Christianity because it rejected the gospel preached by Jesus Christ. The man in the movie is deceived. You cannot connect Buddhism with the teachings of Christ. It is sad to watch this :'(
idolatry according to the biblr. thou shalt not worship other gods besides me. they are not worshiping their ancestors they, revere them and they commune/communicate with them.
@@A.Baskoro-pl7zx Islam, Judaism, and Protestantism. The unholy Trinity.
Amen, straight necromancy. It’s wrong.
Joshua Lewis Thank You ❤️🙏
@@pissant959 True.
🇺🇲❤️✡️✝️🕉️☸️❤️🇺🇲
Vergin Mary is not to worship, but Christ Himself.
"Suddenly, the god we believe in is the only god in the world.
Those who do not believe cannot be happy. We want to save you."
I'll gently close the door and call the police lol
Many of the things he practices are non Christian/pagan practices (that includes the catholic heresies).
For anyone who is unsure about their salvation please check out Renee Roland on CZcams, it really is all about Jesus!!!
Japan was smart to reject Christianity during the era of European colonialism. Every country the church went into was soon followed by an European army. Japan is one of the only countries in the world to not be colonized.
Indeed. Africa can confirm.
Y por eso una religión que justifica toda degeneración humana sigue siendo la mayoritaria, una Victoria total no?
3:57 The three coexist together --- because two are false and one is apostate.
So you're saying that Shintoism and Buddhism are false but they're apostate Catholics?
Kawaii Jesus?
Please no
Wait isn’t that and idol? The Bible says not to pray to idols. This guy is in deception. Repent and believe the Gospel.
That not an Idolism he is practing catholicism beliefs that has incultrated shinto and buddist influences
I think by not having any statues would make them appear a lot more like Christians. With statue there is one way to assimilate and be hidden.
Jonathan H “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;”
1 Timothy 2:5 KJV
The ban kept western Christians from explaining these things to them. I only hope they keep God's love.
Joshua L could plss shut up？Youre so annoying and if you dont know the Catholism‘s culture then control your mouth to silence.Have a respect bro and be “Humble”.
...Mary doesnt save ONLY JESUS CHRIST.
Not what Catholics believe.
@@pop3stealth97 Ahhh what? We Catholics don't believe Mary saved us, why are you lying?
Jesus is coming soon!
and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
Mark 1:15 KJV
for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Romans 3:23 KJV
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
1 Corinthians 15:1-4 KJV
that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Romans 10:9 KJV
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
John 14:6 KJV
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9 KJV
We all know that Orthodox Church is the only one and true Jesus church ☦
I was in Kyoto and there's missionary keep preaching on street about the end is near 2 of them are polish. Shyt experience
Umm I was in Kyoto 2 years ago, nothing of the sort, never saw a trace of Christianity anywhere.
They tried to colonize Japan with christianity, but Japan recognised the plan and refused to be slaved...
It happened in so many other parts of the world. But Japan was able to resist.
Correct Japan is a Buddhist and Shintoist nation in Asia which I do love about Japan. And I pay my tributes to Tokugawa Ieyasu and his government "Tokugawa Shogunate" for keeping the nation of Japan safe from the terrible civil wars, restoring the Buddhist temples and making sure the Jesuit Missionaries stop forcing Japanese people to convert to Christianity from conquering Japan. Without the Tokugawa Shogun there would be no Buddhist temples or Shinto shrines on Japanese soil, but I am glad the Tokugawa Shogun did exist to save the future of Japan from these terrible threats of European colonial powers by the Spanish and the Portuguese Traders who were evil at the time. Luckily the Dutch Traders had an excellent collaboration with the Tokugawa Shogun for 200 years until 1854. Tributes to Tokugawa Ieyasu!
@Mervin Freeden exactly
@@dustingriffith7399 Weaaboo
@@dustingriffith7399 the Jesuits didn’t even do anything violent and were just spreading what they believed in. There wasn’t any war started, and wasn’t done violently, the Spanish were weak as hell at this time as well were the Portuguese, and it was coexisting peacefully until the Shogunate and his paranoid group killed them.
I see a statue of marry, just wanna let y’all know through worshipping marry you are commuting a sin because you should worship the one and only god. Marry can’t help you, but Jesus will help you. That’s Catholicism and you don’t enter through religion gods kingdom. Only through the words of god=bible
No Catholic does "worshipping" Mary, always the same lies from Evangelicals. Adoration is not worshipping.
Deux Vult my japanese brothers and sisters.
I used to be Catholic and now am a non-denominational Christian. I see these as two very different things. From my experience, Catholics preach a dead Jesus on the cross but has risen and is alive! I am saved because Jesus died for my sins.
They don’t preach a dead Jesus, a cross without Christ is meaningless and just a method of torture, a cross with Christ invokes the feelings of devotion to the Lord who died for the sins of humanity in an act of love.
As a catholic, you my friend make no sense to me...we preach a dead Jesus?... lol what?😂
idolatry and praying to virgin mary is not right. The prayers should be directed to Jesus Christ and the Lord Father.
Roman Catholicism isn't Christainity. The Man belongs to the Roman Catholic religion.
There are a lot of different types of Christianity (Catholicism, Orthodox, Protestantism, Anglicanism etc..) and Catholicism surged first.