Since 1997, the movement known as the Unification Church is officially called Family Federation for World Peace and Unification
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.
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.