Persecution Invisible In Japan: Cult Sects Privileged?

Hi! It's Shellile Linn.(^O^)

The Catholic parish I belong is about a middle size community in urban area Japan. And there are a lot of Philippine-originated or descended members in our church.

Somehow, we see the dirty hands in our small community.

At the today's homily, our Salesian pastor warned two things.

One is those movements which have brought by not-so-concerned priests, which might cause the division and confrontation in the Japanese community, such as the movement of the Holy Spirit, St. Pius X community, and other mystically faked practices pretended as the traditional Catholic catechisms.

So, they have to start from the very beginning of "How I be a Christian".. Since there's no such deep Christian tradition in this country, all the first generation Catholics and Christians need to catch the Christianity by each of oneself.


And the situation cause many trouble in the Catholic church in Japan.

Catholic Egami Church in Nagasaki

Many Japanese Catholics and Christians are the first generation Christian converted from "not-so-much-religious" who's family, religion have been the ambiguous mixture of Buddhism, Shintoisms, and ancestral worships.

I know many non-Japanese imagine Japanese people are Buddhists. However, over 90% of "self-styled Buｄdhists" in Japan don't know what is Buddha.

Except the elder generation over 60-70th, ancentor worships in Japan is considered as the love to the family members who had passed away, not the ancestral spirits in general. We can see this tendency through recent tolls, too.

Shintoism is in chaos for most of Japanese. Like any other people in all the nations, many Japanese are living in scaring free-floating anxiety in this period of confusion and destruction.

Many prefer to talk to fortune tellers, counselors in some sect religion instead of seeking truth in person.

Since Shintoists, Shinto priests and the Shrines have their quota to sell the amulets and talismans to gather the donations for endless Grand Shrine(Daijingu) construction, they do the consignment sales through fortune tellers and sect members.

Many Japanese people who convert to Catholicism and Christianity never really aware how they had been brainwashed is this society.

So, those converted Catholics and Christians are very easy to be cheated by evil-minded "Christian group".

Somehow, the sect leaders such as the Apostolic Catholic Church, movement of the Holy Spirit and the Blocks of Rosary can easily get the missionary visa with the counterfeit missionary ID in Japan.

Many monasteries, convents and priors are cheated by faked missionaries everywhere.

As far as I aware, the immigration office in Japan is making this situation with some intention.

I remember some cases happened about a decade ago.

Once a police came to the Catholic Kindergarten to arrest a three year old little girl whose mother was arrested on the same day due to illegal overstay.

Our brave nun resisted to the police not to arrest and jail a little child who cannot go to the restroom without nursery assistance.

A similar case happened in a public elementary school nearby. But the principle allowed the police to arrest a ten year old boy with the epilepsy in front of his classmates in the middle of class time.

This boy spent a night in the detention center with adult suspects without necessary care stated by the Convention on the Rights of the Child. He had no idea to know why he was treated as a criminal.

Although the immigration and policies have been so strict to the illegal overstay, they are so kind to sect missionaries.

I think the Japanese immigration office and the government have been well-aware that those "faked" sect missionaries belong to suspicious sects

Since "divide, split, isolate and enslave" is the traditional bureaucratic policy in Japan, these sect leaders seemed profitable for extreme right wing
Abe cabinet and Japan conference.

Our pastor warned all of us, especially Filipinos not to be cheated by those who are against our Credo and Roman Catholic Church.

In other hands, there are so many blogs in the internet which slander the truly faithful as "narrow minded" or "monomania".

We Catholics in Japan are trying our best to our community as one, and turn their mind who have got involved with the temptation from Japan conference members.

This series of persecution made me aware what the Japanese Christian culture really is.

Please pray for those who are in trouble by invisible persecution toward Catholics and Christians in Japan.