“The Adventures of God Detective Jesus Christ” is the first installment in a mystery series set in the world of the Gospels of the New Testament, in which Jesus Christ himself appears as “God Detective,” unraveling the many enigmas left unresolved in the Bible. This volume contains six stories: “The Imprisoned Christ,” centered on the mystery surrounding the coming of Jesus; “The Vanished Wine” at the Wedding at Cana; “The Baptist Slayer”; “The Female Ghost of the Sea of Galilee”; “King of Love, or King of Evil?,” which explores the hidden background behind Jesus’s violent outburst in the Temple; and “The Truth of the Cross (The Sin of Barabbas).”
Although Christianity is the world’s largest religion, Christians make up only about 0.8 percent of Japan’s population. More than 99 percent of Japanese people have little to no knowledge of the Bible. In such a cultural landscape, the very publication of a work like this may itself be considered something of a miracle. Mystery novelist Ryusui Seiryoin, author of nearly ninety books in Japan, wrote this work out of a heartfelt desire, as a Christian himself, to help bring change, however small, to what is often called “a barren land for Christianity.”
Since the Japanese edition was published in 2023, Star Seas Company and its parent company, Kodansha, have been seeking an English-language publisher willing to release a print edition. Unfortunately, no suitable partner has yet been found.
Now, through the generous support of both Star Seas Company and Kodansha, the eBook edition is being made available through The BBB for a limited time, until a print publisher for the English edition is secured. If this work resonates with you, and if you wish to support the spread of the Gospel in Japan, we would be deeply grateful if you would help share news of this eBook with others.
We would also warmly welcome inquiries from English-language publishers interested in releasing a print edition. Please feel free to contact us through the inquiry form on The BBB’s official website.
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In what will certainly become one of the most fundamental speeches of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV told the Spanish Parliament, before receiving a 7-minute standing ovation: "The defense of human life is neither a partisan issue nor a confessional interest: it is a goal of civilization."
"If life ceases to be recognized as a fundamental value, what future can our societies have?" he said, speaking to a gathering of politicians, many supporting abortion and euthanasia.
"Can a community that casts into the shadows the unborn child, the elderly, the sick, those who suffer in silence, or those who depend entirely on the care of others be called fully just?"
"Every human life must be recognized and safeguarded from conception to its natural end, in every circumstance of its existence. When this certainty is obscured, the most vulnerable are the first victims, and the law loses its deepest meaning: to serve and protect every person."
"For this reason, the moral greatness of a nation is manifested, above all, in its capacity to accompany, protect and love those lives that are most fragile," he said, repeating what John Paul II emphasized decades ago.
Starting his speech he commented that Church's is the "message offered in the spirit of service to the human person."
"When the Church addresses anything concerning public life, she does so while respecting the proper mission of institutions and the legitimate responsibility of those who have received the mandate to legislate," Pope Leo said, emphasizing "the Church offers a reflection born of the desire to serve the common good."
He hailed Spain as country that "has known how to view the human being as more than just a cog in the social, economic or political order. It has recognized the human being as a creature open to truth, endowed with freedom, and driven by a thirst for eternity that no temporal reality can quench -- in a word, as someone whose dignity takes precedence over all utility and to whose service legislative action is subject."
He said it was Catholic orders that "helped to shape a legal and moral consciousness capable of remembering that authority always entails responsibility and that every human being must be recognized as a subject of rights and duties."
"That aspiration continues to resonate today: that dignity, justice and the common good should be the measure of social relations, both at the national and international levels."
Referring multiple times to his "Magnifica Humanitas" encyclical, he said: "When the common good ceases to be a shared horizon, public action runs the risk of fragmenting into partial interests, incapable of safeguarding what belongs to all."
"In this context, the family — the primary human reality and the natural foundation of the community — takes on particular importance," Pope Leo said.
"The family will always be the first school of humanity, where one learns, before anywhere else, the basic grammar of living together: welcoming life, caring for others, forgiving, serving and belonging."
"Human life can never be treated as a commodity," the pope said.
"A law does not attain its true greatness merely by having been formally enacted; it attains it when, in addition to being valid in form, it can stand before the dignity of the person and pass that test without shame."
"I invite you, then, to lift your gaze to the world around you, not to turn away from reality, but to remember that every decision by public authorities affects real people, especially those who have less power to make their voices heard."
"The expanse of one’s vision consists precisely in looking more deeply at what is at stake in every public decision. This is why, alongside technical solutions and legal reforms, a moral renewal is also needed."
Video: Vatican Media
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History is made as Pope Leo XIV becomes the first Pope to address the Spanish Parliament, saying:
“I come before you as the Bishop of Rome and Shepherd of the Catholic Church, aware that the mission entrusted to the Successor of the Apostle Peter, as the pricinple and foundation of the unity of the bishops and the faithful, places the Holy See in a special way in dialogue with peoples and with states.”
Sustained applause and a standing ovation for His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, as he becomes the first Pope to address the Cortes Generales, the Spanish Parliament.
Pendant que l'anti-France LFI manifeste sa haine de la France éternelle à Saint-Denis, regardons l'intérieur magnifique de la basilique de nos Rois. #SaintDenis#Melenchon#LFI#Paris.
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Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dóminus tecum.
Benedicta tu in muliéribus, et benedíctus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatóribus,nunc, et in hora mortis nostræ.
Amen.🙏🏻