On February 22, Tenri Kyoko Gakuen High School conducted its 18th graduation ceremony for 140 students (61 boys and 79 girls) in the school’s Auditorium 2 in the presence of Director-in-Chief of Religious Affairs Yoichiro Miyamori and Director-in-Chief of Administrative Affairs Zensuke Nakata. This year’s graduating class was the final…
On April 18, the Oyasama Birth Celebration Service was conducted to commemorate the everliving Oyasama’s 225th birthday in the Main Sanctuary and the Foundress’ Sanctuary of Tenrikyo Church Headquarters with Successor-Designate Daisuke Nakayama presiding as chief officiant. Many followers of the path returned to Jiba from various parts of the…
The 2022 English translation conference, organized as part of the project to retranslate Anecdotes of Oyasama, was held at the Mission Headquarters of Hawaii from October 31 to November 4. This project was launched on the initiative of the translation committees of the America and Canada Diocese and the Hawaii…
Tenrikyo Young Men’s Association held its 96th convention on October 27 with approximately 600 members attending in person. This was the first convention in three years, and its attendance was limited to representatives of the directly supervised chapters and those from dioceses and overseas chapters. The program consisted of two…
On October 27, the day after the Autumn Grand Service, the “Pep Rally for the ‘Three Years, One Thousand Days’ Period Toward the 140th Anniversary of Oyasama” was held at Dining Hall 2 in the presence of the Shinbashira and his wife, Harue, and Successor-Designate Daisuke Nakayama and his wife,…
On October 22, Tenrikyo Church Headquarters held its annual rice-harvesting ceremony at Somanouchi Farm of Tenri High School’s Agriculture Department. This traditional event was originally begun in 1937 by the second Shinbashira, who sought to experience farming first-hand to savor the teachings explained through agricultural metaphors in the Scriptures. This…