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5 unusual facts about Unification Church


Leslie Weatherhead

Weatherhead's theory that Jesus was the son of Zechariah later became part of the teachings of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.

Little Angels Children's Folk Ballet of Korea

The Little Angels Children’s Folk Ballet of Korea is a dance troupe founded in 1962 by Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church, to project a positive image of South Korea to the world.

New Hope Academy

The religious affiliation of the founders of the school, 12 mothers from the same church - is the Unification Church, but it is not a church school and no religion classes are offered.

New-York Tribune

The paper, which was originally named The News World and later changed to The New York City Tribune, was published by News World Communications, Inc., owned by the Unification Church.

Taito Waqavakatoga

On 7 December 2005, Waqavakatoga confirmed that he was the coordinator of a local group affiliated to the Inter Religious Federation For World Peace International, which has ties to the controversial Unification Church.


Automotive industry in North Korea

Founded in 2000, Pyeonghwa Motors in Nampo is an auto manufacturing and retailing joint venture between South Korea's Pyeonghwa Motors (owned by Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church) and the North Korea's Ryonbong General Corp.

Deadly Cults

Groups including the Branch Davidians, Church Universal and Triumphant, the Church of Satan, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments, the Peoples Temple, Heaven's Gate, and the Unification Church are discussed in the book.

George Augustus Stallings, Jr.

In the year 2001, Stallings married Sayomi Kamimoto, a native of Okinawa, Japan, in a ceremony presided over by Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church.

Nansook Hong

It gave her account of her life as the former wife of Hyo Jin Moon, first son of Unification Church founder and leader Sun Myung Moon and his wife Hakja Han Moon.

Hyo Jin Moon (December 3, 1962 – March 17, 2008) was a musician, performer, and recording facility executive and the eldest son of Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon and his wife Hakja Han Moon.

Neo-revelationism

Other examples of notable neo-revelationist movements are the Unification Church, Universal Life, Church of the Last Testament and Fiat Lux.

Ronald Enroth

In the late 1970s he wrote Youth, Brainwashing and the Extremist Cults, where he explored the dynamics of conversion and member participation through some case studies of various controversial minority religious groups such as: Hare Krishna (ISKCON), Children of God, Alamo Christian Foundation, the Love Family, the Unification Church, the Way International, and the Divine Light Mission.

Stephen A. Kent

He stated that Kent analyzed groups that have been referred to as both cults and new religious movements, including the Children of God, the Divine Light Mission, the Unification Church, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, the Church of Scientology, Transcendental Meditation, and others.


see also

Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith

While a student at the University of California, Berkeley, Lofland lived with Unification Church missionary Young Oon Kim and a small group of American church members and studied their activities in trying to promote their beliefs and win new members for their church.

Hyun-jin

Hyun Jin Moon, South Korean businessman, son of Unification Church leader Sun-Myung Moon

Nansook Hong

Author and investigative reporter Peter Maass, writing in the New Yorker Magazine in 1998, said that Hong's divorce was the Unification Church's "most damaging scandal", and predicted that her then unpublished book would be a "tell-all memoir".

Unification Church political activities

In 1995, the former U.S. President George H. W. Bush and his wife, Barbara Bush, spoke at a Unification Church event in the sold-out 50,000-seat Tokyo Dome.

Union Theological Seminary

Unification Theological Seminary in Barrytown, New York, affiliated with the Unification Church

University of Bridgeport

Members of the Unification Church hold other administrative positions at the University besides the presidency: the University's Board of Trustees includes Gordon L. Anderson and has included Chung Hwan Kwak.