Japan's largest Protestant denomination has dismissed one of its pastors for continuing to allow unbaptized people to receive Holy Communion at his church, the Ecumenical News International website reports today (February 20, 2010).
The fired minister, the Rev. Jiro Kitamura of the United Church of Christ in Tokyo, is appealing the decision because he says he cannot accept it.
The pastor has campaigned for some time to give the Eucharist -- another name for Holy Communion -- to those who have not been baptized.
During Holy Communion services in Protestant churches, people receive bread and wine as symbols of the body and blood of Christ.
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