Since 1997, the movement known as the Unification Church is officially called Family Federation for World Peace and Unification
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.
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.
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.
German judges cleared cult leader Sun Myung Moon to enter Germany, telling the government he is not a threat to national security.
A kidnapped Unification Church pastor has been released.
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.
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.
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.
The two had been attending a gathering of the 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.