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The rare version of Christianity heading toward extinction

submitted by Panic to Christianity 3 daysJun 5, 2025 08:53:31 ago (+4/-0)     (www.independent.co.uk)

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/hidden-christians-nagasaki-islands-japan-b2763612.html

"Hidden Christians" are dying out, and there is growing certainty that their unique version of Christianity will die with them.

They still chant in a Latin that hasn’t been widely used in centuries.


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“I’m not a Christian,” Tanimoto said. Even though some of their Latin chants focus on the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ, their prayers are also meant to “ask our ancestors to protect us, to protect our daily lives,” he said. “We are not doing this to worship Jesus or Mary. … Our responsibility is to faithfully carry on the way our ancestors had practised.”