NAGASAKI, Japan — It’s fitting that Pope Francis will start his first official visit to Japan in Nagasaki, the city where Christianity first took hold in the country and where nearly 500 years later ...

In this Nov. 16, 2019, photo, Japanese Archbishop Mitsuaki Takami, who heads Nagasaki’s Catholic community of 60,000, the biggest in Japan, speaks in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary that ...

It was here that a small group of beleaguered Catholic […] 293406215027182. NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) — It’s fitting that Pope Francis will start his first official visit to Japan in Nagasaki, ...

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) - It's fitting that Pope Francis will start his first official visit to Japan in Nagasaki, the city where Christianity first took hold in the country and where nearly 500 ...