TOKYO (AP) Â A woman has filed a suit against the Roman Catholic Church in Japan alleging that a priest raped her four decades ago, as the church's unfolding worldwide sexual abuse crisis gradually ...

This photo taken on Nov. 22, 2016, shows Oura church, or the Basilica of the Twenty-Six Holy Martyrs of Japan in Nagasaki. The Catholic Church today has a fading community of mostly aged Japanese ...

A child with other people walks around a cage to look at bugs at an exhibition devoted to insects in Tokyo, Japan, July 31, 2025. (Credit: Yuri Kageyama/AP.) Listen Shortly after Pope Leo XIV lamented ...

Two groups of Japanese priests visited South Korean dioceses with the aim to strengthen friendship and cooperation between churches on various issues including undocumented migrants, catechesis for ...

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “Our hearts our filled with consolation. We the Bishops of Japan had an audience with the Holy Father, a most humble person of great kindness and a great listener. In ...

Pope Francis this week merged the Diocese of Takamatsu with the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Osaka in Japan. Cardinal Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda, archbishop of Osaka since 2014, was named on Aug. 15 as ...

Catholics in Japan have endured centuries of persecution. The currently small — but devout — presence of the Church in Japan is built upon the witness of untold numbers of martyrs, many of whom died ...

Looking to help Japan? Two local churches are taking offerings to assist with relief efforts. Albany Assembly of God and St. Mary’s Catholic Church are seeking donations to be sent to their respective ...

ALBANY — In light of the terrible events that have recently struck the people of Japan, Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany is, once again, taking an active role in raising ...