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Robert C Culwell's avatar

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⛪ 🇯🇵 Beautiful,

Grace and peace to you Father, Many Years!

Christ is RISEN!

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Romans920's avatar

The fact that Japan remains a pagan country has been a niggling bother for me ever since I was a child reading on the history of the Church. At the absolute height of its power Spain could have cracked the heathen fortresses like walnuts and thrown down their demon idols - instead it stood back and allowed the martyrs of Japan to be overrun, heralding one of the longest and most brutal persecutions of Christians in history. That there are somehow still over a million Christians in Japan is I think an overlooked miracle, a testament to the power of the Gospel even in the blackest of circumstances.

It's also terrifying that, today, Christianity in Europe feels like it's in much greater danger than it is in Japan, a country where people were once asked to desecrate icons on pain of death.

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