Today we take a look at a dying sect of Christianity in Japan that has been around since the Edo era in a time of show guns and warlords. A time when professing your face will get you killed. Amidst persecution, these clandestine Christians preserve their faith using secretive Buddhist images to adhere their worship to biblical figures that well controversial show a devotion that these men and women have for centuries been willing to love not their lives to the death. We pray this episode challenges you to pray for these Christians and for revival in Japan.

Article from the independent