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‘A huge loss.’ In remote Nagasaki islands, a rare version of Christianity heads toward extinction

On the rural islands of Nagasaki a handful of believers practice a version of Christianity that has direct links to a time of samurai, shoguns and martyred missionaries and believers.

A Christian cross at a memorial park for Catholics martyred in the early 1600s is silhouetted before sunrise at Hirado, southern Japan, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
A Christian cross at a memorial park for Catholics martyred in the early 1600s is silhouetted before sunrise at Hirado, southern Japan, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
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Hidden Christians chant in a Latin that hasn’t been widely used in centuries.

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