On 2 December, the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) opens the exhibition "Kakure Kirishitan - Hidden Christians", at the João Paulo II University Library (BUJPII).

The exhibition explores the experience of the Christian faith in Japan, highlighting the memory of the hidden Christians who kept their religion a secret during centuries of persecution. The exhibition also marks the 440th anniversary of the passage of the Tenshō Embassy through various Portuguese locations.

The opening ceremony, organised in partnership with Japan's Yumenosya Foundation and UCP's Institute of Asian Studies, will feature speeches by several prominent personalities, including Bishop Rui Valério, Patriarch of Lisbon, Ota Makoto, Japanese Ambassador to Portugal, and Tatsuo Shirahama, President of the Yumenosya Foundation.

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The João Paulo II University Library (BUJPII) is hosting the photographic exhibition "Macau in Contrasts (2010-2018)", by researcher (ISEG-ULisboa) and anthropologist Marisa C. Gaspar.

This exhibition will be on display on the 3rd floor of BUJPII from 13 May to 15 July.

This exhibition of 32 photographs displays the vast collection of ethnographic photography that Marisa C. Gaspar has been collecting throughout her fieldwork in Macau, since 2010 and until 2018, in the context of her doctoral research and her post-doctoral project.

Next Tuesday, March 5, at 6 p.m., the documentary exhibition "António Sardinha. Times of exile (1918-1921)" will be inaugurated at the João Paulo II University Library, which will be on display until March 31.

The inauguration session, which will take place in the library’s lounge area, will be comprised of a discussion led by the Vice-Rector for Research, Library and Innovation,  Peter Hanenberg, Professor  José Miguel Sardica from Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculty of Human Sciences, and Ana Isabel Sardinha Desvignes, Associate Professor at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle University, representing António Sardinha's family.