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CHURCH

Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Oct 22, 2018
Chilean court orders Catholic Church to pay damages over priest's decades of abuse of trio: report
Chile's Court of Appeal has ordered the office of Santiago's Archbishop to pay 450 million pesos ($650,000) to three men who alleged they were sexually abused for decades by Chilean priest Fernando Karadima, a local newspaper reported on Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Oct 16, 2018
Hopes high that Pope Francis will send message from A-bombed cities to support nuclear weapons ban treaty
With Pope Francis expressing his intention to visit Japan next year, hopes are high among Hiroshima and Nagasaki residents and A-bomb survivors' groups that he may come to their cities.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 24, 2018
Religion and politics; hopes and disappointments
What a confused and frightened world needs from spiritual leaders is perception, wisdom and illumination, not the same old damaging socialist message from the 1970s.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 29, 2018
Defenders rally around pope, fear conservatives escalating war to oust him
Supporters of Pope Francis have rushed to his defense after a former top Vatican official launched an unprecedented attack on him, a move they say dangerously escalates a campaign to weaken his papacy by conservatives who condemn him as too liberal.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 20, 2018
Catholics 'sickened' by Pennsylvania sex abuse report and church's coverup but stand by their faith
Many churchgoers said they were sickened and saddened by a grand jury report detailing widespread sexual abuse by hundreds of priests in Pennsylvania but they would not let the Roman Catholic Church's coverup dissuade them from their faith.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 1, 2018
Pope promises 'never again' to sex abuse in Chile, reopens investigation
Pope Francis on Thursday promised Chilean Catholics scarred by a culture of clergy sexual abuse that "never again" would the Church ignore them or the coverup of abuse in their country, where a widespread scandal has devastated its credibility.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 20, 2018
Ukraine moves to split church from Russia as elections approach
Ukraine's Orthodox Church could become independent of Moscow under the terms of a presidential initiative lawmakers approved on Thursday, a move that President Petro Poroshenko said would make it harder for Russia to meddle in Ukrainian affairs.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 2, 2018
Pope issues anti-war photo featuring victims of Nagasaki atomic bombing
Pope Francis has issued a card showing a 1945 photo of victims of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki in a warning against war.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 10, 2017
U.S. Air Force missed at least two chances to stop Texas shooter from buying guns
The U.S. Air Force missed at least two chances to block the shooter in last weekend's deadly church attack in Texas from buying guns after he was accused of a violent offense in 2012, according to current and former government officials and a review of military documents.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 8, 2017
Texas gunman escaped mental facility in 2012, caught smuggling arms into U.S. Air Force base
The man who carried out one of the deadliest U.S. mass shootings escaped from a mental health facility in 2012, the same year he was convicted by a U.S. Air Force court-martial of domestic abuse, according to a police report.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 29, 2017
Tadao Ando: When every single building is a passion project
A few simple lines on paper — that's all it was. But there was something extremely alluring about it that intrigued Tadao Ando.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Oct 7, 2017
Monk Kaishun Nishigaya's voyage from Japan to Seattle, Alaska and Saipan
Nishigaya was offered a resident ministry at Seattle Nichiren Buddhist Church and, undeterred by the 14-day journey by ship to reach the United States, snapped it up.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2017
Struggling Brussels church hops to it, hopes brew gets believers to belly up to the pews
A Brussels church that was nearly forced to close its doors for lack of parishioners has turned to the Belgian brewing tradition and launched a new beer in order to raise more funds for a now growing congregation.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 15, 2017
Japan should abandon nuclear umbrella
Japan should propose a nuclear weapons-free zone for Northeast Asia.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 30, 2017
Trudeau seeks Catholic Church apology for 'cultural genocide' of indigenous peoples, invites pope to Canada
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday urged Pope Francis to visit Canada to apologize to indigenous peoples for the Catholic Church's treatment of aboriginal children in schools it ran there.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 25, 2017
'The Gentleman from Japan': Impersonation and intrigue in China and Europe
"You don't know anything, you like noodles, and you aren't Japanese. Can we put that on your gravestone?"
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jan 3, 2017
Pope tells bishops to have zero tolerance for sexual abuse 'atrocities' but critics see mere rhetoric
Pope Francis has told bishops around the world they must adhere to a policy of zero tolerance for clergy who sexually abuse children and begged forgiveness for "a sin that shames us.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Oct 26, 2016
Japan's Filipinos heed Pope Francis' call to action on refugees and climate
Pontiff's emphasis on mercy for migrants and warnings about climate change resonate with the community in Japan.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Oct 17, 2016
International Criminal Court puts Duterte on notice as critics begin to speak up
The International Criminal Court has fired a warning shot over allegations of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines' bloody drugs war at a time when critics in Manila have also begun speaking up.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 11, 2016
Once-powerful Philippine Catholic Church divided, subdued over drug killings
Philippine priests of the Roman Catholic Church, an institution that helped to oust two of the country's leaders in the past, say they are afraid and unsure how to speak out against the war on drugs unleashed by new President Rodrigo Duterte.

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