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| The former Nokubi church for Christians built on Nozakijima Island, part of the Goto islands off Nagasaki Prefecture |
A dozen Christian
locations in parts of southern Japan where members of the faith were once
brutally persecuted were selected for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage
list on Saturday.
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Japanese Christian site - The Asahi Shimbun. For Japanese converts, hiding
their religion became a matter of life and death, with Christianity banned
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