On the day celebrating the Jubilee of the Poor, a priest from the Diocese of Tokyo reflects on how he included the night-time “tent city” in St. Peter's Square in the Holy Year itinera ...

The Vatican has confirmed the heartbreaking news that has shaken the world, sparking a wave of tributes and expressions of mourning from world leaders and faithful followers across the globe. St.

The Catholic Church in Japan, in collaboration with European religious groups, is set to establish a new pilgrimage route in ...

Japan’s diplomatic relations with the Vatican date back to the arrival of Francis Xavier (1502–1552) and the subsequent history of the hidden Christians. This is not remembered by the Vatican as a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Martin Scorsese is a producing a documentary made with Pope Francis that will chronicle the late pontiff’s work with cinema in the global educational movement he founded before his ...

Japan’s government, Church leaders, atomic bomb survivors and lay Catholics have welcomed the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope and first Augustinian friar to assume the papacy, ...