http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:15:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23776/mass-marriage-cult-leader-sun-myung-moon http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23776/mass-marriage-cult-leader-sun-myung-moon#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:46:45 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23776 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.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23776/mass-marriage-cult-leader-sun-myung-moon/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23770/unification-church-8 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23770/unification-church-8#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:10:15 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23770 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.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23770/unification-church-8/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23715/workers-at-unification-church-related-company-pressure-customers-into-expensive-purchases http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23715/workers-at-unification-church-related-company-pressure-customers-into-expensive-purchases#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:51:51 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23715 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. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23715/workers-at-unification-church-related-company-pressure-customers-into-expensive-purchases/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23690/paraguaw-protest-against-unification-church http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23690/paraguaw-protest-against-unification-church#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:21:44 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23690 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.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23690/paraguaw-protest-against-unification-church/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22952/moonies-uk-global-peace-festival http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22952/moonies-uk-global-peace-festival#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:12:30 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22952 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.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22952/moonies-uk-global-peace-festival/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21791/moonies-messiah-injured-in-helicopter-emergency-landing http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21791/moonies-messiah-injured-in-helicopter-emergency-landing#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:44:25 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21791 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.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21791/moonies-messiah-injured-in-helicopter-emergency-landing/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21565/emmanuel-milingo-conducts-mass-in-zambia http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21565/emmanuel-milingo-conducts-mass-in-zambia#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:21:28 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21565 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21565/emmanuel-milingo-conducts-mass-in-zambia/feed 0