Tag: Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan
Japan Church peace gathering warns against weapons buildup
Fukuoka gathering linked Catholic social teaching with Japan’s Constitution as participants were urged to speak publicly against militarization
Japanese bishops warn military buildup threatens nation’s postwar peace identity
Japanese Church leader urges solidarity with war victims while criticizing rising militarization, arms exports, and global reliance on force
Japanese bishops call for urgent action to protect creation, vulnerable
Japan’s bishops urge ecological conversion in Holy Year, warning against greed and calling for justice, humility, and renewal
Survivor warns ‘nuclear weapons cannot protect a nation’ at Japan’s interfaith...
Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor Terumi Tanaka urges faith leaders at Mount Hiei to confront history and abolish nuclear weapons
Japanese bishops decry execution of ‘Twitter killer,’ urge end to death...
Catholic Church says capital punishment violates human dignity, denies chance for repentance and justice for victims
Japanese bishops decry global return to war and militarism
Japanese bishops warn of rising global militarism, urge youth to uphold peace, justice, and memory 80 years after WWII
Japan bishops push for death penalty abolition after acquittal of longest-serving...
Japan remains one of the few developed nations that still uses the death penalty, despite calls for its abolition
Japan bishop laments ‘globalization of indifference,’ urges end of violence
Archbishop Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo said it is human beings who are creating violence and “it is our indifference that is encouraging it.”
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