Unesco adds Japanese Hidden Christian sites to World Heritage registry
Tourist look at a large memorial plate for a group of 26, knows as 26 Martyrs, Catholics who were executed by crucifixion on February 5, 1597 on May 4, 2017 in Nagasaki, Japan. Nagasaki prefecture is the most famous place where Hidden Christian (Kakure Kirishitian in Japanese) escaped repression by the shogun Tokugawa. In 2018 Unesco added 12 sites of Hidden Christians to the world heritage list because they "bear unique testimony to a cultural tradition nurtured by Hidden Christians in the Nagasaki region who secretly transmitted their faith during the period of prohibition from the 17th to the 19th century". (Photo by Nicolas Datiche/AFLO)