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This photo taken on Nov. 22, 2016, shows Oura church, or the Basilica of the Twenty-Six Holy Martyrs of Japan in Nagasaki. The Catholic Church today has a fading community of mostly aged Japanese while the other is a growing community of generally young immigrants who live their faith without reference to the evangelization of Japan. The number of foreigners living in Japan has reached an all-time high.
The largest groups of foreign residents are from China, Vietnam and South Korea. Others from the Philippines, Brazil and other countries of Latin America are reshaping the Catholic Church as they have become the majority of Japan’s Catholics. In fact, the number of births in 2022 dropped below 800,000 for the first time, eight years earlier than had been projected. Each year, about 50 schools are closed because of a shortage of children.
However, even though it needs them Japanese society is not yet ready to welcome newcomers as potentially a part of a new Japanese people, one with a variety of ancestries and races. How are those responsible for the management of the Catholic Church responding to this inevitability?"The formation of Japanese clergy does not include training in the languages and cultures of immigrants"
On the other side, the formation of Japanese clergy does not include training in the languages and cultures of immigrants for the provision of pastoral care and an introduction to evangelizing membership in Japanese society.
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