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Wednesday October 14, 2009
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Nearly a half-century after the Rev. Sun Myung Moon performed his first mass wedding, the 89-year-old leader of the Unification Church is getting ready to marry off tens of thousands of people in spectacles from the United States to South Korea. Critics who accuse the church of engaging in cultlike practices say the mass weddings prove it brainwashes its followers.
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Tuesday October 13, 2009
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The Rev Sun Myung Moon, now approaching 90 and still one of the world’s most controversial religious figures, is handing over day-to-day control of his Unification Church to his sons.Critics maintain the Rev Moon is little more than a charismatic cult leader who brainwashes followers.
Still, some analysts say that by anointing a new generation, Moon may ensure the church endures after his death.
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Tuesday September 29, 2009
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Four members of a seal stamp company in Osaka, Japan have been arrested for intimidating customers into buying expensive products.The suspects — whose company is connected to the Unification Church, a religious cult — contacted three women through fortune-telling services and threathened them over many hours.
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Thursday September 24, 2009
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Hundreds of peasants from a town in western Paraguay on Tuesday blocked the national highway that runs to Argentina and Bolivia to demand the distribution of land donated by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. The protest is the latest in a series staged by peasants from the Puerto Casado region in recent years against Victoria S.A., a company owned by the Moon cult.
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Friday November 21, 2008
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A peace group involved with the controversial Unification Church, who are often given the name of Moonies, is tomorrow staging its biggest ever event in Britain.
Anti-cult activists fear it could mark a British renaissance for the group, which experienced a growth in numbers during the 1970s and 80s.
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Saturday July 19, 2008
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South Korean sect leader Sun Myung Moon was among seven people reported injured when their helicopter burst into flames after an emergency landing north of Seoul Saturday.Moon, 88-year-old founder of the so-called Unification Church, was taken to a nearby hospital owned by his movement, as were the other injured including Moon’s wife Han Hak Ja, Yonhap news agency said.
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Saturday April 19, 2008
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Moonies: Reverend Hyung Jin Moon on Friday became the Chairman of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU), taking charge of the church’s world and domestic organisations.
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Friday April 11, 2008
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The victim told the press, “I was told that my ancestors were suffering in hell. The amount of money they demanded got higher and higher, and I felt bound by hand and foot.”
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Wednesday April 9, 2008
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The Unification Church, apparently fearing the wrath of the education ministry, agreed to pay 230 million yen to a woman who said she was intimidated into donating huge sums to the group.
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Friday March 7, 2008
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Lack of discernment runs in the family: Neil Bush, younger brother of U.S. President George W. Bush, called on Paraguay’s president as the guest of a business federation allied with the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church.
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Saturday January 19, 2008
Catholic Church • Emmanuel Milingo • Unification Church:
Archbishop Milingo was excommunicated for marrying and for attempting to ordain four married Catholic priests as bishops in the United States.
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Wednesday September 5, 2007
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The official, from the Sun Moon Education Foundation run by the Unification Church, said Alabbar flew to Pyongyang after receiving an honorary doctorate in law from Sun Moon University in South Korea.
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Wednesday August 22, 2007
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A TV education guru took thousands of pounds from deprived schoolchildren for a trip to the Caribbean – then cancelled it at the last minute and instead flew to a religious cult conference, it has been revealed.
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Tuesday July 31, 2007
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At least 100 landless people have taken over a ranch in southwestern Brazil owned by South Korea religious leader Reverend Sun Myung Moon and evicted his followers, said police on Monday.
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Tuesday July 17, 2007
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Many of the 2,000 Moonies who married at a July 1, 1982 mass wedding had met only a few weeks earlier, matched by cult leader Sun Myung Moon.
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Tuesday July 3, 2007
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Moon’s adherents try ‘to use new ways for getting into the Russian education system,’ the president of the Russian Association for Study of Religions and Cults Alexander Dvorkin said.
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Friday May 4, 2007
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German judges cleared cult leader Sun Myung Moon to enter Germany, telling the government he is not a threat to national security.
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Friday April 20, 2007
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A kidnapped Unification Church pastor has been released.
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Thursday April 19, 2007
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Government officials say Moon’s political views are also contrary to the German constitution’s commitment to the combination of social security with free markets.
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Wednesday April 11, 2007
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Sawako Yamaguchi, one of four people kidnapped last week in Caaguazu, Paraguay, was released early Tuesday, according to a senior official of the Unification Church.
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Tuesday April 10, 2007
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The Unification Church has confirmed that four people kidnapped in Paraguay, including two Japanese, are safe and that negotiations for their release have made progress, a senior member of an affiliated group said Sunday.
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Wednesday April 4, 2007
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The two had been attending a gathering of the Unification Church .
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Saturday March 10, 2007
Emmanuel Milingo • Unification Church:
When Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo rejoined the wife chosen for him by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the Catholic Church excommunicated him. But Milingo says it’s all part of a divine plan.
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Tuesday February 13, 2007
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The church founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon agreed to pay $500,000 (€385,922) to restore damaged habitat — and avoid prosecution — in the case of a pastor who poached baby sharks from San Francisco Bay, federal prosecutors said Monday.
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Thursday February 1, 2007
Emmanuel Milingo • Unification Church:
Former Roman Catholic Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, a resident of Zambia that shocked the world by getting married – an act against church doctrine – has been secretly staying in Seoul to study the religion of the Unification Church, founded by the controversial Reverend Sun-myung Moon.
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