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.

A Unification Church pastor has been jailed for masterminding a shark-smuggling scam.

The pastor of a Bay Area church was sentenced to one year in prison for illegally catching and selling hundreds of juvenile leopard sharks in the United States and abroad, authorities said.

Fort Payne Police Chief David Walker said all four claimed to be members of HAS-UWC World Seminars, or the Unification Church. They were apparently seeking donations for their church. Walker said the police department received several phone calls from people complaining about the four.

An excommunicated Roman Catholic archbishop continued his defiance of the Vatican on Sunday when he ordained two married men as priests.

A renegade Roman Catholic archbishop who was excommunicated by the Vatican after he installed married priests as bishops acknowledged Saturday that South Korean evangelist Rev. Sun Myung Moon is supporting his crusade against mandatory celibacy.

A British pastor of the Moonies church faces jail for masterminding a world-wide shark poaching and smuggling racket.

A cult that first gained notoriety in the 1970s is actively recruiting in Canadian town.

Germany’s supreme court on Thursday ordered a lower court to re-examine an order banning Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church, from entering the country.

Kofi Annan will this week put a former leading Moonie in charge of the UN’s biggest humanitarian aid agency after vigorous lobbying by the Bush administration.

Moon’s outreach to largely Baptist and Pentecostal clergy thrives despite a doctrine that states he is the Second Coming of the Messiah and that Jesus Christ failed to complete the mission God sent him to do.

One of many front groups of the Unification Church cleans a hospital in Fiji, the country that last year denied entry to cult leader Sun Myung Moon.

The Tokyo District Court ordered the Unification Church on Tuesday to pay about 280 million yen in damages to a woman who said she was swindled of a large amount of money under the religious group’s fraudulent sales campaign.

Local police today charged the director of human resources at The Washington Times with one count of attempting to entice a minor on the Internet, the newspaper reported.

When Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, the former Lusaka based Catholic priest, realized that he could no longer bear the weight of strict celibacy vows, the unification church came in to lend a hand to him. It secured for him a wife.

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