Word: pietsch
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Christianity now has relatively fewer adherents-some 950,000, split about evenly between Protestants and Roman Catholics-than it had in the decades after Francis Xavier, a 16th century Jesuit and the pioneer Christian missionary in Japan. Says the Rev. Timothy Pietsch, a Baptist missionary: "A Japanese Christian has to give his allegiance to a 'foreign' God and say that he's not first and foremost a Japanese-an impossible task...