Sun Myung Moon

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Sun Myung Moon

Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han
Korean name
Hangul 문선명
Hanja 文鮮明
Revised Romanization Mun Seon-myeong
McCune–Reischauer Mun Sŏnmyŏng
Birth name
Hangul 문용명
Hanja 文龍明
Revised Romanization Mun Yong-myeong
McCune–Reischauer Mun Yongmyŏng
This is a Korean name; the family name is Moon.

Sun Myung Moon (born 25 February 1920) is the Korean founder and leader of the worldwide Unification Church, visionary,[1] billionaire,[2] media mogul[3][4][5][6] and influential power broker.[7][8] He has honorary degrees from more than seven universities and colleges worldwide.[9][10] Moon is a member of the Honorary Committee of the Unification Ministry of the Republic of Korea.[11] He is also the founder of many other organizations and projects. Among of the best-known of these are News World Communications, an international media conglomerate which published The Washington Times and other newspapers,[12] and the Tongil Group, a South Korean business group or chaebol with business interests world-wide. Four of Tongil Group subsidiaries are listed on the Korea Exchange,[13] Moon is the largest U.S. sushi restaurants owner[14] and the second largest exporter of Korean goods,[15] in some U.S. areas he is the largest employer;[16] he also manages the top Asian ballet company,[17] the largest Asian helicopter plant,[18] as well as the only automobile-manufacturing plant in North Korea (DPRK) named Pyeonghwa Motors.[19][20] Three of his NGOs, namely Universal Peace Federation, Women's Federation for World Peace and Service for Peace, are in consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council.[21] UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon spoke at Moon-owned Manhattan Center during Africa Day event, which was also co-sponcored by one of Moon's front organizations.[22][23] Moon and his wife Hak Ja Han are also famous for holding blessing ceremonies, often referred to as "mass weddings". One of such blessing ceremonies was held in UN Headquarters in 2000.[24]

For a while he was the best known Korean in the world.[25] This fact, plus the myriad organizations, his anti-communism, mass weddings, and his unmodest ambitions— led to hysterical media coverage in the 1970s and 1980s[25]

Moon has claimed, and it is generally believed by Unification Church members, that he is the Messiah and the Second Coming of Christ and is fulfilling Jesus' unfinished mission.[26][27] Moon's followers claim that there is "no room to challenging Moon...history will answer whether Moon is new messiah".[28] Moon himself gave the following answer to the question whether is he messiah or not: "Yes I am. But so are you." Then he pointed to each person around him: "And so are you, and you, and you."[25]

He has been among the most controversial modern religious leaders, both for his religious beliefs and for his social and political activism.[29]

According to his followers, "Rev. Moon believes that fish can provide food for the entire world "[30] and "Rev. Moon is just very interested in the ocean. He feels It's the last frontier on this Earth, ond one that is extremely necessary in putting this Earth back into Its orbit". Moon-owned Yeongpyeong Resort, The Ocean Resort and Pineridge Resort will host Expo 2012 in May 2012,[31] 2018 Winter Olympics[32][33] and Formula 1.[34] Moon also manages Peace Cup.

Participants in one or more of the International Conferences on the Unity of the Sciences, founded by Moon, included Nobel laureates John Eccles (Physiology or Medicine 1963, who chaired the 1976 conference),[35] Eugene Wigner (Physics 1963).[36]

Moon founded the Family Party for Universal Peace and Unity in different countries.[37] Thus, Ek Nath Dhakal, a Member of Parliament (MP) from the party is a member of the Unification Movement and leader of the Nepalese chapter of the Universal Peace Federation.[38] Official events have periodically been held in honor of Sun Myung Moon in the municipalities of Korea.[39] Moon's projects have been lobbied in the National Congress of Brazil by Brazilian MPs.[40][41][42] Moon have been held the dialogues between the members of the Israeli Knesset and the Palestinian Parliament as part of his Middle East Peace Initiatives.[43]

Moon's followers believe that he sleeps about two hours a night. He speaks without notes and gives lengthy speeches, some of which last all day.[25] He knows many languages, including English language,[44] and, according to his official webpage, is fluent in Japanese language.[45]

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[edit] Early life and education (1920-1944)

Moon was born in 1920 in modern-day Sangsa-ri (上思里, lit. "high-thought village"), Deogun-myon, Jeongju-gun, North P'yŏng'an Province, North Korea. His birthday was recorded as January 6 by the traditional lunar calendar (February 25, 1920, according to the Gregorian Calendar).[46][47] Korea was then under Japanese rule. He is one of thirteen children and the second son to Kyung-gye Kim, a homemaker, and Kyung-yoo Moon, a scholar. During his childhood, Moon was heavily affected by his elder brother Yong-Su Moon's deep faith. Moon and his family went into bankruptcy when his grandfather's elder brother, Rev. Yunguk Moon, gave most of the family money to an independence movement from Japan.[48]

In Moon's family, there was a tradition in the form of a superstitious belief that held that if the second son was to receive a Western-style education, he would die early. As a result of this, Moon received Confucian-style elementary and middle school education, not receiving his first Western-style education until he was 14 years old.[49] Previously, Moon's family followed traditional Confucianist beliefs; when he was around 10 years old, they converted to Christianity and joined the Presbyterian Church, where he taught Sunday school.[50] On April 17, 1935, when Moon was 15, he said that he had a vision of Jesus while praying atop a small mountain. He said that Jesus asked him to complete the unfinished task of establishing God's kingdom on Earth and bring peace to the world. Three years later, Moon criticized Japanese rule over Korea and Japanese education in his high school graduation ceremony speech, which made him a focus of police officers.[51]

Moon attended a boys' boarding school in Seoul for his high school years. Later, he briefly lived in Japan and studied electrical engineering at Waseda Advanced Engineering School. During this time, he studied the Bible and developed his own interpretation of it.

[edit] 1940s

On May 4, 1944,[52] Moon married Sun Kil Choi. Their son, Sung Jin Moon, was born in 1946. They divorced in 1953 soon after Moon's release from prison in North Korea. Choi and Sung Jin Moon are now both members of the Unification Church.[53] Sung Jin Moon married in 1973 and now has three children.[54]

After World War II and the Japanese occupation ended in 1945, Moon returned to Korea and began preaching his message.[50] The beginnings of the church's official teachings, the Divine Principle, first saw written form as Wolli Wonbon in 1946. (The second, expanded version, Wolli Hesol, or Explanation of the Divine Principle, was not published until 1957.) The book lays out the core of Unification theology and is held to have the status of scripture by believers.[55]

Following the format of systematic theology, the Divine Principle discusses: [1] God's purpose in creating human beings, [2] the fall of man, and [3] redemption - the process through history by which God is working to remove the ill effects of the fall and restore humanity back to the relationship and position that God originally intended.[56] The Divine Principle is based on the Jewish and Christian Bible, but calls for the unity of all religions.[57] It draws parallels between Jewish history, as recorded in the Bible, and later Christian history; controversially saying that Jesus should have been accepted as the Messiah during his lifetime.[58]

Moon was arrested in 1946 by North Korean officials. The church states that the charges stemmed from the jealousy and resentment of other church pastors after parishioners stopped tithing to their old churches upon joining Moon's congregation. Police beat him and nearly killed him, but a teenage disciple named Won Pil Kim nursed him back to health. Moon was arrested again and was given a five-year sentence in 1948 to the Hŭngnam labor camp, where prisoners were routinely worked to death on short rations. Moon credits his survival to God's protection over his life and his habit of saving half his meager water ration for washing the toxic chemicals off of his skin after long days of work, bagging and loading chemical fertilizer with his bare hands.[citation needed]

[edit] 1950s

After serving 34 months of his sentence, Moon was released in 1950, during the Korean War when United Nations troops advanced on the camp and the guards fled. He traveled south and built his first church from mud and cardboard boxes as a refugee in Pusan.[30]

In the early 1940s Moon had cooperated with Communist Party of Korea members in the Korean independence movement against Imperial Japan. However after the war and his imprisonment he became an outspoken anti-communist.[59] He was a supporter of the World League for Freedom and Democracy, an international anti-communist organization based in Taiwan.[60] Financial support for Moon's early anti-communist activities came from Ryoichi Sasakawa, a Japanese billionaire accused of but found not guilty of war crimes.[61][62]

In 1954, Moon founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity in Seoul (more often called the Unification Church).[63] The Unification Church expanded rapidly in South Korea and by the end of 1955 had 30 church centers throughout the nation. In 1958, Moon sent missionaries to Japan, and in 1959, to the United States of America.

In the early years of the Unification Church in South Korea, opponents of the church made unproven claims that Moon led his congregation as a sex cult. The church has vehemently rejected the claims, and a former member, South Korean pastor Sa Hun Shim, was convicted of criminal libel for publishing the allegation, in 1989, when a Seoul court held that this persistent rumor was without basis.[64]

In 1955, Moon himself had been arrested and acquitted of charges that the church calls fabricated.[65] And in 1960, in what Moon calls the "climax of persecution,"[66] fourteen students and two professors were dismissed from Ewha Women's University in Seoul on the grounds that their participation in the faith was immoral.[65]

Rumors of polyamory made it into early U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation reports monitoring the church. The intelligence cables claimed Moon conducted sex rituals among six married female disciples. (the "Six Marys") to prepare the way for the virgin who would marry Moon and become the "True Mother". Conservative journalist Carlton Sherwood has argued that the claims were invented by Christian missionaries. An FBI field report alleged that Moon's rites involved "having a nude women in a darkened room with MUN[sic] while he recited a long prayer and caressed their bodies.... At these meetings, MUN prepared special food and drink, and gathered his nude congregation into a darkened room where they all prayed for twenty-four hours."[65]

In 1993, an early disciple of Moon, Chung Hwa Pak, in his book Tragedy of the Six Marys, released in Japan as "Roku Maria no Higeki", charged that Moon practiced during the church's early years sex rituals with, among others, six married female disciples ("the six Marys"). Pak subsequently rejoined the church and recanted, publishing a 1995 confession, The Apostate, in which he said he had lied about Moon out of jealousy.[67][68]

Moon was still legally married to Choi when he began a relationship with his second (common law) wife Myung Hee Kim, who gave birth to a son named Hee Jin Moon (who was killed in a train accident). His church does not regard this as infidelity, because Sun Kil Choi is said to have already left her husband by that time. Korean divorce law in the 1950s made legal divorce difficult and drawn out, so much so that when Myung Hee Kim became pregnant she was sent to Japan to avoid legal complications for Moon. There she was either raped or seduced by a Japanese man, and due to shame did not return to Moon.[69]

[edit] 1960s

Moon married his wife, Hak Ja Han, on April 11, 1960, soon after she turned 17 years old, in a ceremony called the Holy Marriage. Han, called Mother or True Mother by followers, and her husband together are referred to as the True Parents by members of the Unification Church. Han gave birth to 14 children; her second daughter died in infancy. The family is known in the church as the True Family and the children as the True Children. Shortly after their marriage, they presided over a Blessing Ceremony for 36 couples, the first of many such ceremonies.[70]

In 1962 Moon and other church members founded the Little Angels Children’s Folk Ballet of Korea, a children's dance troop which presents traditional Korean folk dances. He said that this was to project a positive image of South Korea to the world.[71]

[edit] 1970s

In 1971, Moon moved to the United States, which he had first visited in 1965. He remained a citizen of the Republic of Korea and maintained a residence in South Korea.[72]

In 1972 Moon founded the International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, a series of scientific conferences.[63][73] The first conference had 20 participants; while the largest conference, in Seoul, South Korea in 1982, had 808 participants from over 100 countries.[74][75]

In 1974 Moon supported President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.[27] Church members prayed and fasted in support of Nixon for three days in front of the United States Capitol, under the motto: "Forgive, Love and Unite." On February 1, 1974 Nixon publicly thanked them for their support and officially received Moon. This brought Moon and the Unification Church into widespread public and media attention in the United States.[76]

In 1975, Moon founded the International Relief and Friendship Foundation,[77] the charitable fund,[78] which co-sponcors UN and UNESCO programs[79] for the sake of implementation of the Millennium Development Goals in the Middle East,[80][81] Haiti,[82] Africa,[83] etc.

In the 1970s Moon, who had seldom spoken to the general public before, gave a series of public speeches to audiences in the United States, Japan, and South Korea. The largest were a rally in 1975 against North Korean aggression in Seoul and a speech at an event organized by the Unification Church in Washington D.C. that also featured fireworks and music. These talks were highly visible and brought Moon into greater public attention.[53][84] In 1975, Moon sent out missionaries to 120 countries around the world.[30]

In 1977 and 1978 the Fraser Committee, a subcommittee of the United States Congress led by Congressman Donald M. Fraser conducted an investigation of South Korea – United States relations and produced a report that included 81 pages about Moon and what the subcommittee termed "the Moon Organization."[85] The Fraser committee found that the KCIA decided to use the Unification Church as a political tool within the United States and that some Unification Church members worked as volunteers in Congressional offices. Together they founded the Korean Cultural Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit organization which acted as a propaganda campaign for the Republic of Korea.[86] The committee also investigated possible KCIA influence on the Unification Church's campaign in support of Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.[87]

The committee also reported that the Tongil Group, a business group owned by the Unification Church and then South Korea's 35th largest industrial conglomerate,[88] was involved in weapons manufacture and was an important defense contractor in South Korea. The report said: "It is involved in the production of M16 rifles, antiaircraft guns, and other weapons." Tongil's other enterprises include: Pharmaceuticals, tourism, publishing, ginseng and related products, real estate and building materials. The Tongil Group funds the Tongil Foundation which supports Unification Church projects including schools and the Little Angels Children’s Folk Ballet of Korea.[89][90]

[edit] 1980s

In 1980 Moon asked church members to found CAUSA International as an anti-communist educational organization, based in New York.[91] In the 1980s it was active in 21 countries. In the United States it sponsored educational conferences for evangelical and fundamentalist Christian leaders[92] as well as seminars and conferences for Senate staffers, Hispanic Americans and conservative activists.[93] In 1986 it produced the anti-communist documentary film Nicaragua Was Our Home.[94]

In 1981, the Unification Movement proposed to build 200 km- and $ 100 billion- underwater tunnel to the governments of Japan and Korea, which is now at the initial stage of construction and is funded by both governments.[95]

In 1982 Moon sponsored the movie Inchon about the Korean War. It cost over US$50 million and was a critical and financial failure.[96][97][98][99]

In 1982 in the case United States vs. Sun Myung Moon, Moon was convicted by the U.S. government for filing false federal income tax returns and conspiracy. His conviction was upheld on appeal in a split decision. He was given a prison sentence and spent 18 months in the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut. Many individuals, organizations and religious figures protested the charges, saying that they were unjust and threatened freedom of religion and free speech. Based on this case, reporter Carlton Sherwood wrote the book Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Moon himself said the following on this occasion:[100]

I would not be standing here today if my skin were white and my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church.... The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism.

In 1984, according to New York Times and the Vatican Mission to the United Nations, the rector of an Argentine Roman Catholic university awarded an honorary degree to Moon at a ceremony in a United Nations.[9]

On January 2, 1984 Moon and Han's second son, Heung Jin Moon died in a vehicle accident in New York State.[101][102] Three months later his parents conducted a spiritual wedding ceremony between Heung Jin Moon and Hoon Sook Pak, daughter of church leader, Bo Hi Pak. He is officially regarded by the Unification Church to be the "king of the spirits" in heaven (ranking higher than Jesus).[103] After Heung Jin Moon's death, some church members claimed that they were channelling messages from his spirit.[104] In a 1988 a church member from Zimbabwe, named Kundioni, claimed to be the incarnation of Heung Jin Moon. His acts of violence against church members were a source of controversy within the church.[101] Heung Jin Moon is now believed by church members to be leading workshops in the spiritual world in which spirits of deceased persons are taught Unification Church teachings.[103][105][106][107]

In Washington, D.C., Moon found common ground with strongly anti-communist leaders of the 1980s, including United States President Ronald Reagan. His international media conglomerate News World Communications, founded with Unification Church funds in 1976,[108] founded The Washington Times in 1982. By 1991, Moon said he spent about $1 billion on the paper[109] (by 2002 roughly $1.7 billion),[110] which he called "the instrument in spreading the truth about God to the world".[111]

In August 1985, seven years before the fall of Soviet Union, the Professors World Peace Academy, an organization founded by Moon, sponsored a conference in Geneva to debate the theme "The situation in the world after the fall of the communist empire." The conference was chaired by professors Morton Kaplan and Aleksandras Štromas.[112] Moon suggested the topic. In August 1987 the Unification Church student association CARP led a reported 300 demonstrators in Berlin calling for communist leaders to bring down the Berlin Wall.[53][113][114]

[edit] 1990s

In April 1990 Moon visited the Soviet Union and met with President Mikhail Gorbachev. Moon expressed support for the political and economic transformations under way in the Soviet Union. At the same time the Unification Church was expanding into formerly communist nations.[115] Massimo Introvigne, who has studied the Unification Church and other new religious movements, has said that after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Moon has made anti-communism much less of a priority.[53]

In 1990, Moon met with Ahmed Kuftaro, the Grand Mufti of Syria, who presented to Moon a signed copy of the Koran.[116][117][118]

In 1991 he met with Kim Il Sung, President of the DPRK, to discuss ways to achieve peace on the Korean peninsula, as well as on international relations, tourism, etc.[119]

In 1992 Moon founded the Women's Federation for World Peace, sending 1,600 female volunteers to 160 countries around the world to care for children, and for eradication of poverty, hunger, illiteracy and AIDS.[120] Three branches of the Federation of Women for Peace around the world in different countries have a special consultative status with UN ECOSOC.[121] Women's Federation for World Peace is a member of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development as well.[122]

In 1992 Moon gave the wedding blessing for the 300,000 couples at the Seoul Olympic Stadium.[123] Three years later he did it again for 360,000 couples here.[124]

In 1994, Moon was officially invited to the funeral of Kim Il Sung, in spite of the absence of diplomatic relations between the DPRK and South Korea.[125] Later on, in 2011, after the death of Kim Jong-il his youngest son laid a wreath to Kim in Pyongyang.[126]

In the 1990s Moon's ownership of major business enterprises, including The Washington Times, the United Press International, and Pyeonghwa Motors was noted in the media. A small sampling of include computers and religious icons in Japan, seafood in Alaska, weapons and ginseng in Korea, huge tracts of land in South America, a recording studio and travel agency in Manhattan, a horse farm in Texas and a golf course in California.[127] In a 1992 letter to The New York Times, author Richard Quebedeaux, who had taken part in several Unification Church projects, criticized Moon's financial judgment by saying, "Mr. Moon may well be a good religious leader with high ideals, but he has also shown himself to be a poor businessman."[128]

In the mid-1990s, former U.S. President George H. W. Bush accepted millions of dollars from Moon's Women’s Federation for World Peace to speak on Moon's behalf around the world.[30] In 1996, Moon was endorsed by George H. W. Bush:[129]

I want to salute Reverend Moon, who is the founder of the Washington Times and also of Tiempos del Mundo. A lot of my friends in South America don't know about The Washington Times, but it is an independent voice. The editors of The Washington Times tell me that never once has the man with the vision interfered with the running of the paper, a paper that in my view brings sanity to Washington, D.C. I am convinced that Tiempos del Mundo is going to do the same thing.

In 1994 the New York Times, in a review of a PBS Frontline documentary on the Unification Church, said that, "outside investigators and onetime insiders … give a picture of a theocratic powerhouse that is pouring foreign fortunes into conservative causes in the United States."[130] In 1998 the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram criticized Moon's "ultra-right leanings" and suggested a personal relationship with conservative Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[131]

In 1997 gay rights advocates criticized Moon based on comments he made in a speech to church members, in which he said: "What is the meaning of lesbians and homosexuals? That is the place where all different kinds of dung collect. We have to end that behavior. When this kind of dirty relationship is taking place between human beings, God cannot be happy," and referred to gay people as "dung-eating dogs."[132][133] He also said in 2007 that "free sex and homosexuality both are the madness of the lowest of the human race," and that God detests such behavior, while Satan lauds it.[134]

In 1998 Nansook Hong, whom Moon married to his son Hyo Jin Moon when he was 19 years old and she 15, published her autobiography, In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family, which the New Yorker Magazine called Moon's "most damaging scandal".[26] Hong says that the Moon and his family live a "lavish" lifestyle and that he is treated like a god.[107] The "tell-all memoir"[26] openly challenges Moon and his wife's role in church teachings as "True Parents". She told TIME Magazine: "Rev. Moon has been proclaiming that he has established his ideal family, and fulfilled his mission, and when I pinpointed that his family is just as dysfunctional as any other family - or more than most - then I think his theology falls apart."[135] For some Unification Church members, this book was a revealing portrait of the way Sun Myung Moon and his wife had raised their children, and caused a great deal of soul-searching.[136]

In 1999, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and South Korean President Kim Dae-jung participated, along with Sun Myung Moon in the 10-th Anniversary of the Segye Ilbo daily, owned by the latter.[137]

On October 28, 1999, Moon's son Young Jin Moon fell to his death from the 17th floor of a hotel in downtown Reno, Nevada, in what the coroner reported as a suicide.[138] His sister, Yeon Jin Moon, states that he developed depression and anxiety.[139] A spokesman for the Moon family asserted their position that they thought the death was not a suicide.[140] Young Jin Moon had finished two years of classes studying East Asian civilizations at Columbia University, and had wanted to study hotel management. At the time he had been married for two years.[141]

[edit] 2000s

In 2000 Moon was criticized by conservative Christians for his sponsorship of a United Nations conference which proposed the formation of "a religious assembly, or council of religious representatives, within the structure of the United Nations." Religious movements represented at the summit were Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shinto, Bahai, and Native American religions.[142] In the same year, he joined with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan in sponsoring the Million Family March in Washington D.C., a follow-up event to the Million Man March held in 1995.[143] In January 2001 Moon sponsored President George W. Bush's Inaugural Prayer Luncheon for Unity and Renewal.[144] Later that year he presided over the wedding of now-excommunicated Roman Catholic Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo and Maria Sung, a Korean acupuncturist.[145][146] In 2003 Moon sponsored the first Peace Cup international club football tournament.[147][148][149] George H. W. Bush's youngest son Neil Bush accompanied Moon on a speaking tour of Asian countries in 2005.[150]

In 2000, Oscar Arias, who is the President of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Prize winner, attended one of international scientific conferences, organized by Moon.[151]

In 2000, one of the Moon's front organizations launched its activities in China and opened an office in the Health Ministry of China in Beijing.[152]

In 2001, about 100 pastors came up to the stage while Moon was inviting them one by one, after his speech, during the Million Family March in Washington, D.C., which was co-organized by Moon.[153]

In 2003, Congressman Danny K. Davis testified before Speaker of the United States House of Representatives about Sun Myung Moon praising his commitment to world peace and interfaith harmony.[154]

Between 2002 and 2006, Moon and his wife were banned from entry into Germany and the other 14 Schengen treaty countries. The Netherlands and a few other Schengen states let Moon and his wife enter their countries in 2005. The ban has since been lifted in Germany and other countries as of 2007.[155] Statements by Moon about the Holocaust, that its victims were paying indemnity for the crucifixion of Jesus, were reported in a number of sources, including in the official record of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.[156] In 2003, Unification Church spokesperson and webmaster Damian Anderson defended Moon's statements against critics saying: ""The fact is that the Jewish people committed a grievous sin in rejecting the Lord, and the world is today committing a grievous sin in rejecting the Lord. I will not water down what Father said to please liberal constituencies within his own church."[157] Some commentators, including David G. Bromley, a sociologist and expert on new religious movements, have suggested that Moon's statements are a reason for the Unification Church being "considered anti-Semitic".[158][159][160] The Unification Church has also been criticized for saying that the First World War, the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Cold War served as indemnity conditions to prepare the world for the establishment of the Kingdom of God.[161]

In 2004, at a March 23 ceremony in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, in Washington, D.C. Moon crowned himself with what was called the "Crown of Peace."[162][163] Law makers who attended included Senator Mark Dayton (D-Minn.), Representatives Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) , as well as former Representative Walter Fauntroy (D-D.C.) . Key organizers of the event included George Augustus Stallings, Jr., a controversial former Roman Catholic priest who had been married by Moon, and Michael Jenkins, the president of the Unification Church of the United States at that time.[162] On June 27, 2004 the New York Times editorial board criticized the ceremony and the participation of members of Congress.[163] The Associated Press reported that "Many of the congressional members in attendance have said they felt misled into making an appearance that later was used to promote Moon's Unification Church."[164] Some stated that they didn't expect a coronation but thought the awards dinner was only to honor activists from their home states as Ambassadors for Peace.[165]

In 2004, Moon hold opening ceremony of the largest helicopter manufacturer in Asia,[18] with 500 VIPs participating, namely Washington Times Aviation; the company produces Sikorsky helocopters on sub-contract basis.[166] Moon travels worldwide in his private jet which cost $ 50 million,[167] and he does not believe in the literal descent of Christ from heaven to Earth, according to his own words.[168] The same year, Moon launched $ 1.5-billion construction project of 70-storey twin skyscrapers in Seoul;[169] a year later he bought an area of ​​46,000 m ² in Seoul for the construction of skyscrapers.[170] Currently the project is under construction and scheduled to be completed by 2013.[171]

On September 12, 2005, at the age of 85, Moon inaugurated the Universal Peace Federation with a 120-city world speaking tour.[172] At each city, Moon delivered his speech titled "God's Ideal Family - the Model for World Peace". In April 2008, Moon appointed his youngest son Hyung Jin Moon to be the new leader of the Unification Church and the worldwide Unification Movement, saying, "I hope everyone helps him so that he may fulfill his duty as the successor of the True Parents."[173]

In 2005, Moon was hosted by Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo at her official residence.[174] The same year South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung sent a congratulatory video message on Moon's birthday occasion, which was broadcasted to 350 invited guests, including five former heads of state in presence.[175] The same year, Sun Myung Moon was hosted by the President of Uruguay Tabare Vasquez[176] and by Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid.[177]

On July 19, 2008, Moon, his wife, and 14 others were slightly injured when their Sikorsky S-92 helicopter crashed during an emergency landing and burst into flames in Gapyeong.[178][179] Moon and all 15 others had survived the incident with minor injuries, and were treated at the nearby church-affiliated Cheongshim Hospital.[180] Experts from the United States National Transportation Safety Board, the United States Federal Aviation Administration, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, and General Electric assisted the South Korean government in its investigation of the crash.[181][182]

Also in 2005, President of the Ukrainian Peace Council and the first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk met with Sun Myung Moon in one of Moon's events.[183]

In 2009, the Yonhap News Agency reported that Moon had plans to establish a sacred sanctuary at his birthplace.[184] That same year, Moon's autobiography, As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen (Korean: 평화를 사랑하는 세계인으로),[185] was published by Gimm-Young Publishers in South Korea. The book became a best-seller in Korea and Japan.[186][187][188][189] An English translation was published in the United States later that year.[190][191] In October, 2010 it was noted that the Korean edition had sold over one million copies and had become a topic of conversation in South Korea.[192] The book is available at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Korea[193] and in government libraries of South Korea[194][195][196] and Japan.[197]

In 2009, Moon was awarded by Wisconsin Senate on the motion of Senator Jon Erpenbach with a sertificate of congratulations "on occasion of the celebration of his 90th Birthday".[198]

In 2009, Moon presided over the Blessing Ceremony for 40,000 people on the campus of the Sunmoon University; the ceremony was supported by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Korea.[199]

[edit] 2010s

In 2010 about 1,000 dignitaries from around the world have sent gifts and greeting cards on Moon's 90-th birthday, including President Kim Jong Il, U.S. President Barack Obama[200][201] and the Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.[202] That same year, the Georgia Senate passed a resolution No. SR 1095 prepared by Senator Donzella James, "recognizing the birthdays of Reverend Sun Myung Moon" and his wife.[203]

In 2010 Moon declared that his main teachings are contained within eight textbooks. They are "The Sermons of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon", "Exposition of the Divine Principle", "Cheon Seong Gyeong", "The Family Pledge", "Pyeong Hwa Shin Gyeong [Messages of Peace]", "True Families—Gateway to Heaven", "Owner of Peace and Owner of Lineage" and "World Scripture".[204] At that time Moon and Han were spending most of their time in South Korea and had given much of the responsibility for the Unification Church's religious and business activities to their children, who were then in their 30s and 40s.[205]

In 2011, construction of $ 18 million Yeosu Expo Hotel was completed ; the hotel located at Moon-owned The Ocean Resort in Yeosu, the venue of the Expo 2012.[206] The opening ceremony was attended by the governor of the relevant province.[206][207]

In 2011, the President of Mongolia Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj served as the patron in the honorary committee of the Global Peace Festival held by the son of Sun Myung Moon, Hyun Jin Moon.[208] The latter have also met with the President of Costa Rica Laura Chinchilla,[209] the President of Paraguay Nicanor Duarte,[210][211][212] the President of Uruguay Julio Maria Sanguinetti,[213] the President of Ethiopia Girma Wolde-Giorgis, Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai and the Archbishop of Anglican Church of Kenya Eliud Wabukala.[214][215][216][217]

In 2011, aged 91, Moon addressed in a regional United Nations Headquarters in Geneva on the Millennium Development Goals.[218]

In 2011, 91 years old Sun Myung Moon designed 7 meters long unsinkable boat with a rubber bottom special design.[219][220]

In July 2011, Moon was hosted by the President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan in his official residence.[221]

In December 2011 in Pyongyang, to mark the 20th anniversary of Sun Myung Moon's visit to the DPRK, de jure President Kim Yong Nam hosted the younger son of Sun Myung Moon's in the official residence.[222][223] The latter donated 600 tons of flour to North Korean children of Jeongju Province, the birthplace of Sun Myung Moon.[224][225] Also, after the 2011 earthquake in Japan, he donated $ 1.7 million to the Japanese Red Cross.[226][227]

In 2011, Moon with his family travelled to London and members of his family addressed at the parliament of Great Britain before the parliamentarians, including David Anderson and Tarsem King, Baron King of West Bromwich.[228]

According to the official web-page of Sun Myung Moon, at April 28, 2011 Sun Myung Moon visited the Basilica of St. Peter and delivered a speech at the Vatican;[229] the Portuguese Post issued a stamp with the image of Sun Myung Moon.[230]

In 2012, according to official web-page of Universal Peace Federation, founded by Moon, In 2012, Aslambek Aslakhanov, who is the member of Duma and the Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of Russia, traveled to Korea to the birthday event of Sun Myung Moon and delivered a speech there.[231]

In February 2012, Stavros S. Anthony, the Mayor of Las Vegas recognized the contributions of Moon-owned Little Angels Children's Folk Ballet of Korea.[232]

[edit] Name and titles

Moon was born Mun Yong Myong. In 1953 he changed this to Mun Son-myong (also spelled Moon Sun Myung). In a speech Moon explained that the hanja for moon (문, 文), his surname, means "word" or "literature" in Korean. The character sun (선, 鮮), composed of "fish" and "lamb" (symbols of Christianity), means "fresh". The character myung (명, 明), composed of "sun" and "moon", (which was part of his given name), means "bright". Together, sun-myung means "make clear". So the full name can be taken to mean "the word made clear". Moon concluded: "My name is prophetic."[233]

In the English-speaking world, Moon is often referred to as "Reverend Moon" by Unification Church members, the general public, and the media. Unification Church members most often call him "Father" or "True Father". He is also sometimes called "Father Moon". Similar titles are used for his wife: "Mother", "True Mother", or "Mother Moon". "Dr. Moon" has also occasionally been used, especially in connection with the Universal Peace Federation, because Moon received an honorary doctorate from the Shaw Divinity School of Shaw University.

Some Jewish leaders refer occasionally to Moon as “Rabbi Moon.”[234]

[edit] Notes

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  5. ^ Marc Fisher and Jeff Leen Stymied in U.S., Moon’s Church Sounds a Retreat//Washington Post,24 November 1997
  6. ^ Yuki Noguchi Washington Times Owner Buys UPI // Washington Post, 16.05.2000
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  9. ^ a b Moon Gets Honorary Degree From Argentine at the U.N. / New York Times, November 17, 1984
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  12. ^ Around The Nation; Sun Myung Moon Paper Appears in Washington from The New York Times
  13. ^ INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS - INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS - Key Moon Unit Goes Into Default - NYTimes.com
  14. ^ Monica Eng, Delroy Alexander and David Jackson Sushi and Rev. Moon: How Americans' growing appetite for sushi is helping to support his controversial church// Chicago Tribune, 11 April 2006
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  16. ^ Tooth and Claw | CAA
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  19. ^ Donald Kirk No, Not Yet.Palaver in Pyongyang doesn’t signal a northern manufacturing itch from Korea’s conglomerates.//Forbes,29 October 2007
  20. ^ Barbara Demick Who gave N. Korea those power tools?// Los Angeles Times 27 September 2008.
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  22. ^ Africa Day 2010
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  26. ^ a b c Moon At Twilight: Amid scandal, the Unification Church has a strange new mission, Peter Maass New Yorker Magazine, September 14, 1998. "Moon sees the essence of his own mission as completing the one given to Jesus--establishing a "true family" untouched by Satan while teaching all people to lead a God-centered life under his spiritual leadership."..."Although Moon often predicts in his sermons that a breakthrough is near, Moffitt realizes that Moon may not come to be seen as the messiah in his lifetime."
  27. ^ a b Unifying or Dividing? Sun Myung Moon and the Origins of the Unification Church, by George D. Chryssides, University of Wolverhampton, U.K. A paper presented at the CESNUR 2003 Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania.
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  38. ^ Fresh Blast of Family Party in Nepal//The Segye Times, 03 April 2008
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  49. ^ "The first education and entrance to the Christian faith". True Parents' Life Course, Volume 1. Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, Historical Committee. Seonghwa Publications. 1999. pp. 29–45. (Publication in Korean): Chogi Hakseup-gwa Shinang Ip-mun. Chambumonim Saeng'ae-Nojeong 1-gweon. Segye Pyeonghwa Tongil Gajeong Yeonhap, Yeoksa Pyeonchan Uiwonhoe. Seonghwa Chulpansa. 1999. pp. 29-45. 초기학습과 신앙입문 《참부모님 생애노정 1권》. 세계평화통일가정연합 역사편찬위원회. 성화출판사. 1999.
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  52. ^ Moon, Sun Myung, 2009, As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen. Gimm-Young Publishers ISBN 071660299 , page 39
  53. ^ a b c d The Unification Church: Studies in Contemporary Religion Massimo Introvigne, Signature Books, ISBN 1-56085-145-7
  54. ^ Sung Jin Nim's Family Kathryn Coman, 2008
  55. ^ Korean Moon: Waxing of Waning?, Leo Sandon Jr., Theology Today, Vol 35, No 2, July 1978
  56. ^ Korean Moon: Waxing of Waning?, Leo Sandon Jr., Theology Today, Vol 35, No 2, July 1978, "The movement's official doctrinal statement, and a part of the revelation, is the Divine Principle. Both an oral tradition and a written one and published in several versions, Divine Principle is the Completed Testament. The Rev. Moon claims to have come not to destroy or abrogate the Old and New Testaments, but to fulfill them-to "complete" them. To his Moonist followers, the Rev. Moon is primarily "true father," probably the Messiah, and only secondarily a theologian. In an effort to systematize Moon's teachings, several members of the Unification Church in Korea have put together a developing theological system in Divine Principle which is impressive in its imaginativeness, coherence, and consistency, if not in its Christian orthodoxy. As the most complete expression of Moonist teachings to date, Divine Principle is the basic text of the Unification Church.4 The two major divisions of the system are the doctrines of Creation and Restoration. There are many subsets to these major divisions, but Creation and Restoration are the foci for the Moonist theological system."
  57. ^ The Moonie Family, Leo Sandon Jr., 1978, Worldview Magazine, published by the Carnegie Council
  58. ^ "Divine Principle", New World Encyclopedia
  59. ^ Moon, Sun Myung (2009). As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen. Gimm-Young Publishers. ISBN 0716602997. 
  60. ^ "Growth of Reagan's Contra Commitment excerpted from the book The Iran-Contra Connection Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era". Thirdworldtraveler.com. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Ronald_Reagan/ReaganContraCommit_TICC.html. Retrieved 2008-10-17. 
  61. ^ The Resurrection Of Reverend Moon PBS, Frontline, January 21, 1992[dead link]
  62. ^ Sun Myung Moon Changes Robes, New York Times, January 21, 1992
  63. ^ a b excerpt The Unification Church Studies in Contemporary Religion, Massimo Introvigne, 2000, Signature Books, Salt Lake City, Utah, ISBN 1-56085-145-7
  64. ^ Seoul District Criminal Court, case 79 ko dan 3372
  65. ^ a b c Carlton Sherwood, Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon (Regnery Press, 1991), 38, 41
  66. ^ "Victory of the Day of Love," Moon speech, 1977, http://www.unification.net/1987/870102.html
  67. ^ From the Unification Church to the Unification Movement, 1994-1999: Five Years of Dramatic Changes by Massimo Introvigne, Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR). An expanded version of this paper is part of Massimo Introvigne’s book The Unification Church, published in the series "Studies in Contemporary Religion" by Signature Books. "The Hong book also revived earlier controversies associated with the late Chung Hwa Pak, one of Rev. Moon's first disciples, who had caused considerable controversy by confirming accusations of sexual immorality in the Rev. Moon’s early career in a text widely circulated by critics (and later published in Japanese) called The Tragedy of the Six Marys. Park, who had left the Unification Church, claimed that Rev. Moon practiced during the church's early years sex rituals with, among others, six married female disciples ("the six Marys") who were to have prepared the way for the virgin who would marry him and become the True Mother. The church vehemently denied the allegations, and was able to rely on earlier Korean court rulings where critics who made similar accusations had been found guilty of defamation and libel. Park eventually returned to the fold and, shortly before dying, recanted all the accusations in a second text he authored in 1995, called The Apostate."
  68. ^ A speech made by Pak titled "Retraction of The Tragedy of the Six Marys" can be found at www.tparents.org.
  69. ^ Hee Jin Moon and Myung Hee Kim, Unification Sermons and Talks, Dan Fefferman, December 25, 1998.
  70. ^ Cowan, Douglas E.; David G. Bromley (2007). Cults and New Religions: A Brief History (Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion). Blackwell Pub.. pp. 96, 103. ISBN 1405161272. 
  71. ^ Sewell, Rhonda B. (February 28, 2003). "Korean Culture Takes the Stage". The Blade: p. D11. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vWRPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KwQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3834,3951179&dq=korean-culture-takes-the-stage&hl=en. "The colors, sounds, and heritage of South Korea will come alive tonight as the Little Angels, an all-girls Korean folk ballet company, performs in the Ritz Theatre in Tiffin. ... The company was founded in 1962 by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han, as a way to project a positive image of the country..." 
  72. ^ "Image of Moon's arrival" (JPG). http://www.tparents.org/Library/Moon/Photos/Mph-1954/TF-1965.jpg. Retrieved 2006-04-29. 
  73. ^ Kety Quits Moon-Linked ICF Conference Harvard Crimson, 1976-08-10.
  74. ^ ICUS Statement of Purpose
  75. ^ Church Spends Millions On Its Image Washington Post. 1984-09-17 "An estimated 5,000 scholars, including more than two dozen Nobel laureates, have accepted expense-paid trips to academic conferences around the world held by the International Conference of the Unity of Sciences (ICUS) and the Professors World Peace Academy, two offshoots of the Moon-financed International Cultural Foundation (ICF), a New York-based umbrella organization for church academic programs. This year's 13th annual ICUS conference, with the theme 'Absolute Values and The New Cultural Revolution,' was held over the Labor Day weekend at the new J.W. Marriott Hotel in Washington and attracted 240 participants from 46 countries, including John Lombardi, dean of international programs at Indiana University; Claude A. Villee, a Harvard Medical School biochemist; Morton Kaplan, a University of Chicago political scientist, and Eugene P. Wigner, a Princeton University physicist and Nobel laureate who, at an ICUS conference two years ago, received a $200,000 "founder's award" from Moon."
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  85. ^ Investigation of Korean-American Relations; Report of the Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives.
  86. ^ Spiritual warfare: the politics of the Christian right, Sara Diamond, 1989, Pluto Press, Page 58
  87. ^ Ex-aide of Moon Faces Citation for Contempt, Associated Press, Eugene Register-Guard, August 5, 1977
  88. ^ Reverend Moon's Group Wants to Talk Investment : Seoul Nods At Church's Foray North, International Herald Tribune, 1998-05-02
  89. ^ Kirk, Donald (May 2, 2010). "Sons rise in a Moon’s shadow". Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/global/2010/0412/enterprise-moon-sun-myung-spiritual-unification-world-revival.html. 
  90. ^ Kim, Hyung-eun (April 12, 2010). "Business engine of a global faith". Joong Ang Daily. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2919043. 
  91. ^ "Moon's 'Cause' Takes Aim At Communism in Americas." The Washington Post. August 28, 1983
  92. ^ Sun Myung Moon's Followers Recruit Christians to Assist in Battle Against Communism Christianity Today June 15, 1985
  93. ^ Church Spends Millions On Its Image, Washington Post, 1984-09-17. "Another church political arm, Causa International, which preaches a philosophy it calls "God-ism," has been spending millions of dollars on expense-paid seminars and conferences for Senate staffers, Hispanic Americans and conservative activists. It also has contributed $500,000 to finance an anticommunist lobbying campaign headed by John T. (Terry) Dolan, chairman of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC)."
  94. ^ Public TV Tilts Toward Conservatives, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting "While conservatives dismiss Bill Moyers' world-class documentaries on our constitutional checks and balances as "propaganda," they never mention PBS's airing of unabashed right-wing agitprop films such as Nicaragua Was Our Home (the pro-contra film produced by Rev. Sun Myung Moon's CAUSA, which funded the contras after Congress' ban)...."
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  96. ^ Kempley, Rita (September 17, 1982). "Mooning Over MacArthur". The Washington Post (The Washington Post Company): p. Weekend At The Movies; Pg. 13. 
  97. ^ Variety staff (2009). "Inchon". Variety (www.variety.com). 
  98. ^ Niemi, Robert (2006). History in the Media: Film and Television. ABC-CLIO. p. 151. ISBN 978-1576079522. 
  99. ^ TV Guide staff. "Inchon review". TV Guide (movies.tvguide.com). http://movies.tvguide.com/inchon/review/102041. Retrieved 2009-10-21. 
  100. ^ Sun Myung Moon Pleads Innocent
  101. ^ a b "Theological Uproar in Unification Church: Rev. Moon Recognizes Zimbabwean as His Reincarnated Son" by Michael Isikoff, Washington Post, March 30, 1988.
  102. ^ Moon's Son, 17, Dies After a Car Accident. AP story, January 3, 1984. Accessed Saturday, August 19, 2006 from the New York Times Archives.
  103. ^ a b James A. Beverley (2004), "Spirit Revelation and the Unification Church" in Controversial New Religions, James R. Lewis & Jesper Aagaard Petersen, ed. Oxford University Press USA, p. 47-48. ISBN 0195156838
  104. ^ Inside info on Cleophas by church historian Michael Breen
  105. ^ "From the Unification Church to the Unification Movement, 1994-1999: Five Years of Dramatic Changes" by Massimo Introvigne, a condensed version of material in The Unification Church, in the series "Studies in Contemporary Religion", Signature Books.
  106. ^ Eileen Barker, in America's Alternative Religions, edited by Timothy Miller, SUNY Press, 1995, ISBN 0-7914-2397-2, page 225
  107. ^ a b Hong, Nansook (1998). In the Shadow of the Moons. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0316348163. 
  108. ^ "Who Owns What: News World Communications". The Columbia Journalism Review. 2003-11-24. http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=newsworld. Retrieved 2008-02-02. 
  109. ^ "Literally nine hundred million to one billion dollars has been spent to activate and run the Washington Times" -Sun Myung Moon, "True Family and True Universe centering on True Love", Founder's Address, 15th Anniversary of The Washington Times, June 16, 1997, Washington, DC.
  110. ^ "As of this year, Moon and his businesses have plowed about $1.7 billion into subsidizing the Times, say current and former employees." "Moon Speech Raises Old Ghosts as the Times Turns 20", by Frank Ahrens, Washington Post, May 23, 2002.
  111. ^ Chinni, Dante (2002). "The Other Paper: The Washington Times's role". Columbia Journalism Review. Archived from the original on 2006-04-19. http://web.archive.org/web/20060419012416/http://www.cjr.org/issues/2002/5/wash-chinni.asp. Retrieved 2006-04-29. 
  112. ^ Projections about a post-Soviet world-twenty-five years later. // Goliath Business News
  113. ^ "Protest Groups Clash Near Wall", The Associated Press, August 8, 1987.
  114. ^ YouTube: Protesting the Berlin Wall - The History of CARP
  115. ^ EVOLUTION IN EUROPE; New Flock for Moon Church: The Changing Soviet Student from The New York Times.
  116. ^ http://www.newprophecy.net/Reverend_and_Mrs_Sun_Myung_Moon_meet_with_the_Grand_Mufti_of_Syria_October_1990.jpg
  117. ^ Фото
  118. ^ en:Ahmed Kuftaro
  119. ^ At Time of Change for Rev. Moon Church, a Return to Tradition // The New York Times, 14 October 2009
  120. ^ "True peace keepers, UN approved NGO leading organizations, " World Peace Women’s Union President //Sports Chosun Emaenbi, 30 September 2011
  121. ^ Ngos which are in consultative status with ECOSOC and/or accredited Fourth World Conference on Women // UN Official site
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  123. ^ Bak Byeong Ryong Unification Church believers around the world three manyeossang joint wedding //MBCNews, 25 August 1992
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  125. ^ mk 뉴스 — 金장례식에 日여자마술사 초청한 까닭
  126. ^ N. Korean heir called 'supreme leader' — USATODAY.com
  127. ^ A Church in Flux Is Flush With Cash, by Marc Fisher and Jeff Leen, Washington Post Staff Writers, Sunday, November 23, 1997.
  128. ^ Richard Quebedeaux Moon Church a Stranger to Academic Freedom; A Temporary Bailout?, The New York Times, 1992-06-13.
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  130. ^ GOODMAN, WALTER. "Review/Television; Sun Myung Moon Changes Robes". New York Times. January 21, 1992. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEEDB1F3FF932A15752C0A964958260&sec=&spon=. 
  131. ^ The same old game, Al-Ahram, November 12–18, 1998, "The Washington Times is a mouthpiece for the ultra conservative Republican right, unquestioning supporters of Israel's Likud government. The newspaper is owned by Sun Myung Moon, originally a native of North Korea and head of the Unification Church, whose ultra-right leanings make him a ready ally for Netanyahu. Whether or not Netanyahu is personally acquainted with Moon is unclear, though there is no doubt that he has established close friendships with several staff members on The Washington Times, whose editorial policy is rabidly anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and pro-Israel."
  132. ^ Media Watch from Windy City Times 2004-07-07.
  133. ^ THE FAMILY FEDERATION FOR COSMIC PEACE AND UNIFICATION AND THE COSMIC ERA OF BLESSED FAMILY from Unification.net, 1997-05-04.
  134. ^ The Value and Significance of the Family Pledge from Unification.net, 2007-06-13.
  135. ^ Life with the Moons: A conversation with Nansook Hong, former daughter-in-law of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Time Magazine, October 13, 1998.
  136. ^ In a review of the book, Marcia Rudin writes that due to Nansook Hong's position within the Moon family, her story cannot simply be dismissed by cult apologists as an atrocity tale. Rudin went on to state that: "The compelling credibility of this book demands that Nansook's story be paid attention to. Many Unification Church members are paying it attention, for, according to Nansook and others, the first-hand testimony delivered through this book has already caused many Unification Church members to leave the group." Book Review, Marcia Rudin, Cultic Studies Journal, Volume 16, Number 1, 1999.
  137. ^ North Korea, Sun Myung Moon, The Washington Times, and the Threat of Nuclear War, Blackmail and Terrorism //America’s Survival
  138. ^ "Remains of religious leader's son to be moved to Korea" LasVegas Sun, November 10, 1999.
  139. ^ In Memory of My Brother (Young Jin) by Yeon Jin Moon.
  140. ^ Oliver, Ryan (April 12, 2001). "Controversial Message: Moon speaks at church". Las Vegas Review-Journal. 
  141. ^ Schoenmann, Joe (November 4, 1999). "Moon's son dies in fall from hotel". Las Vegas Review-Journal. 
  142. ^ International religious summit at U.N. receives criticism, Baptist Press, August 28, 2000.
  143. ^ Million Family March reaches out to all
  144. ^ Why Are Pastors Flying to Moon?Christianity Today August 1, 2001
  145. ^ Let’s marry, rebel bishop tells priests, The Standard (Nairobi, Kenya), June 26, 2009
  146. ^ A Marriage Made in Heaven?, Washington Post, March 11, 2007
  147. ^ "Peace Cup (South Korea)". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesp/peacecup.html. Retrieved 2008-06-14. 
  148. ^ Korean influence: PSV's Hiddink hoping to win Peace CupSports Illustrated July 21, 2003
  149. ^ South Korea to host global peace cup in JulySports Illustrated May 6, 2003
  150. ^ :: Welcome to Manila Bulletin Online ::
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  152. ^ Group Founded by Sun Myung Moon Preaches Sexual Abstinence in China — New York Times
  153. ^ Moon Tries to Connect With Black Pastors (FREE Article Preview) Washington Post Apr 21, 2001.
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  155. ^ Report released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. State Dept.
  156. ^ Reports include:
    • Jewish currents, Volume 30, 1976, p5
    • Parliamentary debates: Official report, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 23 February 1977, vol 926 p1593 THE UNIFICATION CHURCH (Hansard, 23 February 1977)
    • Religious education, Volume 73, 1978, p356
    • Cults in America: programmed for paradise‎, Willa Appel, 1983, p171
    • Anti-cult movements in cross-cultural perspective, Anson D. Shupe, David G. Bromley, 1994, p42
    • Feher, Shoshanah. Passing over Easter: constructing the boundaries of Messianic Judaism, Rowman Altamira, 1998, p. 36.
    • Heartbreak and Rage: Ten Years Under Sun Myung Moon, Gordon Neufeld, 2002, p173
    • Sun Myung Moon forms new political party to merge divided Koreas, Church & State, May 01, 2003
    • Bad Moon on the rise, John Gorenfeld, Salon Magazine, Sep 24, 2003
    • False dawn, Lee Penn, 2004, p121
  157. ^ John Gorenfeld. "Bad Moon on the rise", Salon Magazine, September 24, 2003.
  158. ^ Anti-cult movements in cross-cultural perspective, Anson D. Shupe, David G. Bromley, 1994, p42; Feher, Shoshanah. Passing over Easter: constructing the boundaries of Messianic Judaism, Rowman Altamira, 1998, p. 36.
  159. ^ "Stephen, for example, burned with indignation over the ignorance and disbelief of the Jewish leaders, and he condemned their actions, calling them murderers and rebels (Acts 7:51-53). Christians since then have commonly shared the same feelings as the disciples of Jesus' day. If Jesus' death had been the foreordained outcome for the fulfillment of God's Will, then it might have been natural for the disciples to grieve over his death, but they would not have been so bitterly resentful over it, nor so angry at those Jewish leaders who caused it." Exposition of the Divine Principle, HSA-UWC, 1996 (ISBN 0-910621-80-2).
  160. ^ Moon said: "By killing one man, Jesus, the Jewish people had to suffer for 2000 years. Countless numbers of people have been slaughtered. During the Second World War, 6 million people were slaughtered to cleanse all the sins of the Jewish people from the time of Jesus." MASTER SPEAKS (no official translation was done), 2/14/74
  161. ^ Helm, S. Divine Principle and the Second Advent Christian Century May 11, 1977 "Thus, while the two world wars may appear from a human point of view to have been evil, from the point of view of God's plan for restoration they were good and necessary. The defeat of the "satanic side" in each case cleared the path for a more nearly complete foundation for the Kingdom of God. These two cataclysmic conflagrations of our century, which broke the back of the liberal Protestant faith in progress, do not appear to trouble the adherents of Divine Principle, by and large members of a generation conveniently undistressed by stark memories of those 'triumphs" for the heavenly side. This sanguine schematization of the Holocaust has not, understandably, reassured Jewish critics of the movement. There remains, of course, one final conflict, the resolution of which will provide the worldwide unity upon which the last four-position foundation can be perfected. This is the struggle between "Abeltype" democracy and "Cain-type" communism. Divine Principle is indecisive at this point. It may not be necessary for democracy to destroy communism (the sole bearer, in its view, of a "materialistic" philosophy) by force. It may be accomplished in a battle of ideology. The Unification Church seeks to forge the necessary ideology while at the same time supporting a militarily supreme West, just in case. This final conflict is imminent, for the Lord of the Second Advent has appeared in Sun Myung Moon, and the atheistic communist system is the "Antichrist" of the final days."
  162. ^ a b Babington, Charles; Alan Cooperman (June 23 2004). "The Rev. Moon Honored at Hill Reception - Lawmakers Say They Were Misled". Washington Post: A01. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61932-2004Jun22.html. 
  163. ^ a b "Lawmakers Scurry From the Light". New York Times. 2004-06-27. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E0D81638F934A15755C0A9629C8B63&scp=9&sq=moon+caligula&st=nyt. 
  164. ^ Bartlett defends role in Moon coronation 07/03/2004, MD PA WV Herald-Mail.
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