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*International Relief Friendship Foundation (IRFF) <ref>[http://www.irff.org International Relief Friendship Foundation]</ref><ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/unification/image.htm Church Spends Millions On Its Image] [[Washington Post]] September 17, 1984."The church-financed International Relief Friendship Foundation recently shipped 1,000 pounds of clothing, nearly seven tons of food and medical supplies to Miskito Indian refugees in the jungles of Honduras, according to Joy Morrow, the foundation's Washington coordinator."</ref> |
*International Relief Friendship Foundation (IRFF) <ref>[http://www.irff.org International Relief Friendship Foundation]</ref><ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/unification/image.htm Church Spends Millions On Its Image] [[Washington Post]] September 17, 1984."The church-financed International Relief Friendship Foundation recently shipped 1,000 pounds of clothing, nearly seven tons of food and medical supplies to Miskito Indian refugees in the jungles of Honduras, according to Joy Morrow, the foundation's Washington coordinator."</ref> |
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*Joshua House Childrens Centre in [[Georgetown, Guyana]] helps homeless and victimized children.<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-3999562/Prince-Harrys-visit-Guyana-childrens-home-founded-Moonies-sect-defended.html Prince Harry's visit to Guyana children's home founded by Moonies sect defended], ''[[Daily Mail]]'', 2016-12-4</ref> |
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* Korean War 60th Anniversary Memorial Committee <ref>[http://hamptonroads.com/2010/06/korean-war-vets-thanked-little-angels-norfolk Korean War vets thanked by Little Angels in Norfolk], Virginian-Pilot, June 8, 2010</ref> |
* Korean War 60th Anniversary Memorial Committee <ref>[http://hamptonroads.com/2010/06/korean-war-vets-thanked-little-angels-norfolk Korean War vets thanked by Little Angels in Norfolk], Virginian-Pilot, June 8, 2010</ref> |
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*National Committee Against Religious Bigotry and Racism<ref name="guy">{{cite news | last =Guy | first =Pat | title =MEDIA: Moon ads blast news magazine | work =[[USA Today]] | page =2B, section: Money | publisher =Gannett Company Inc. | date =April 24, 1989 }}</ref> |
*National Committee Against Religious Bigotry and Racism<ref name="guy">{{cite news | last =Guy | first =Pat | title =MEDIA: Moon ads blast news magazine | work =[[USA Today]] | page =2B, section: Money | publisher =Gannett Company Inc. | date =April 24, 1989 }}</ref> |
Revision as of 16:55, 5 December 2016
There are a number of organizations founded, run, or supported by the Unification Church, and its founder Sun Myung Moon. Commentators have mentioned Moon's belief in a literal Kingdom of God on earth to be brought about by human effort as a motivation for his establishment of groups that are not strictly religious in their purposes.[1][2] Others have said that one purpose of these organizations is to pursue social respectability for the church.[3] These organizations have sometimes been labeled "front groups", an expression which originally referred to Soviet supported organizations during the Cold War.[4]
Multi-faceted organizations
CARP
The Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP) is a collegiate organization founded by Moon and church members in 1955, which promotes intercultural, interracial, and international cooperation through the Unification world view.[5][6] J. Isamu Yamamoto states in Unification Church: "At times CARP has been very subtle about its association with the Unification Church, however, the link between the two has always been strong, since the purpose of both is to spread Moon's teachings."[7]
Universal Peace Federation
The Universal Peace Federation is an international organization which promotes religious freedom.[8]
Women's Federation for World Peace
The Women's Federation for World Peace was founded in 1992 by Hak Ja Han, the wife of Sun Myung Moon, and is supported by the church. It has members in 143 countries.[9][10][11]
Interfaith organizations
- The Assembly of the World's Religions was founded by Sun Myung Moon. The first assembly was held from November 15 to 21, 1985, in MacAfee, New Jersey. The second was from August 15 to 21, 1990 in San Francisco.[12]
- Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace[13][14]
- American Clergy Leadership Conference (ACLC)[15][16][17]
Educational organizations
- Cheongshim Graduate School of Theology[18]
- CheongShim International Academy
- International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences
- International Educational Foundation.[19]
- New World Encyclopedia — an Internet encyclopedia that, in part, selects and rewrites certain Wikipedia articles through a focus on Unification values.[20] It "aims to organize and present human knowledge in ways consistent with our natural purposes"[21] and "to promote knowledge that leads to happiness, well-being, and world peace."[22]
- Paragon House, book publishing.[23]
- The Professors World Peace Academy was founded in 1973 by Sun Myung Moon,[24] who declared the group's intent to "contribute to the solutions of urgent problems facing our modern civilization and to help resolve the cultural divide between East and West". PWPA now has chapters in over one hundred countries.[25]
- Sun Hwa Arts School
- Sun Moon University[26]
- Sun Myung Moon Institute[27]
- High School of the Pacific in Kealakekua, Hawaii[28]
- The Unification Theological Seminary in Barrytown, New York was founded in 1975. Its purpose is to train members from around the world as leaders and theologians in the church.[29]
- Blessed Teens Academy—Greeley, Colorado [30]
- New Hope Academy—Landover Hills, Maryland, USA. "Although New Hope Academy was founded in 1990 by members of the Unification faith, it is not a sectarian school. No doctrines are taught; in fact, no classes in religion are offered.However morning services are mandatory,during services discussions about religious doctrines, hymns, and group prayers all take place. We believe it is the job of parents—with the support of their church, temple, or mosque—to impart their personal faith to their child." [31][32]
- WUF - World University Federation
Organizations in the arts
- Kirov Academy of Ballet, dance school in Washington DC.[33]
- Korean Cultural Foundation[34]
- Little Angels Children’s Folk Ballet of Korea
- Manhattan Center, Theater and recording studio in New York City.[35]
- New York City Symphony
- One Way Productions, movie production company.[36]
- Universal Ballet, classical ballet company in South Korea.[37]
Sports organizations
- Centro Esportivo Nova Esperança, Clube Atlético Sorocaba, Brazilian football teams.[38]
- Martial Arts Federation for World Peace[35]
- Peace Cup[39] International football (soccer) tournament.
- Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma, South Korean football team.[40]
- Sunmoon Peace Football Foundation[41]
- Yeongpyeong Ski Resort, scheduled to host the 2018 Winter Olympics[42][43]
Political organizations
- Freedom Leadership Foundation, an anti-communist organization in the United States active in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.[44][45]
- Peace United Family Party, a South Korean political party founded by the Unification Church, one of whose main goals is the reunification of Korea.[46]
- TheConservatives.com, a former political website in partnership with the Heritage Foundation.[47]
- The Summit Council for World Peace is an international group active in Moon's effort to unite North and South Korea.[48]
- Coalition for a Free World, anti-Soviet group active in the 1980s.[49]
- Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy[50][51]
- CAUSA International is an anti-communist educational organization created in New York City in 1980 by members of the Unification Church.[52] In the 1980s it was active in 21 countries. In the United States it sponsored educational conferences for evangelical and fundamentalist Christian leaders [53] as well as seminars and conferences for Senate staffers, Hispanic Americans and conservative activists.[54] In 1986 it produced the anti-Communist documentary film Nicaragua Was Our Home.[55]
- The International Coalition for Religious Freedom is an activist organization based in Virginia, the United States. It is sponsored by the Unification Church and its president is Dan Fefferman, who has held several leadership positions within the Unification Church of the United States. Founded in the 1980s, it has been active in protesting what it considers to be threats to religious freedom by governmental agencies.[56][57][58]
- International Federation for Victory over Communism
- Korean Culture and Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit organization which in the 1970s staged a public diplomacy campaign in the United States for South Korea[59] When it was founded in 1964, former U.S. Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower were named as honorary presidents and former Vice President Richard Nixon (then practicing corporate law) was named as a director.[60]
- National Committee Against Religious Bigotry and Racism[61]
- National Prayer and Fast Committee, which supported President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.[62][63]
- Radio Free Asia.[60]
Businesses
The Unification Church and church members own a number of businesses in various countries. In Eastern Europe Unification Church missionaries are using the church's business ties to win new converts.[64] David Bromley, a sociologist at Virginia Commonwealth University, said: "The corporate section is understood to be the engine that funds the mission of the church. The wealth base is fairly substantial. But if you were to compare it to the LDS Church or the Catholic Church or other churches that have massive landholdings, this doesn't look on a global scale like a massive operation."[65]
- AmericanLife TV cable television network formerly owned by the Unification Church.[66]
- Cheongshim Hospital, Korean hospital.[67]
- Il hwa Company, South Korean based producer of ginseng and related products.[68]
- Isshin Hospital, Church sponsored hospital in Japan which practices both modern and traditional Asian medicine.[69][70]
- International Oceanic Enterprises Inc.[71]
- International Seafood of Alaska [72]
- Master Marine, shipbuilding and fishing company in Alabama.[73]
- National Hospitality Corporation.[74]
- News World Communications is an international media company. It owns United Press International (UPI), Segye Ilbo, Sekai Nippo, GolfStyles, and the World Peace Herald.[75] It owned the former Middle East Times, Chongyohak Shinmun and Tiempos del Mundo, and also owned The Washington Times before it was sold to News World Media Development.
- News World Media Development, owner of The World & I and former owner of The Washington Times.
- Operations Holdings, owner of The Washington Times, US Marine Corporation, OH Travel, and Manhattan Center Studios.[76]
- The Washington Times newspaper in Washington, D.C.
- Pyeonghwa Motors, an auto manufacturing company in North Korea.[77]
- Tongil Group, South Korean commercial conglomerate. ("Tongil" is Korean for "unity" or "unification".)[78]
- True World Foods, which runs a major portion of the sushi trade in the United States.[79]
- USP Rockets LLC, a real estate development firm in the United States.[80]
- U.S. Property Development Corporation, real estate investment[81]
In the United States the church owns fishing interests. The biggest are in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Alaska and Alabama. In Kodiak, Alaska the church "runs a fleet of fishing boats ... [and is] the largest private employer" in Kodiak.[82]
United Nations related non-governmental organizations
Since 2000, Moon has promoted the creation of an interreligious council at the United Nations as a check and balance to its political-only structure.[83][84] Since then King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and King Juan Carlos I of Spain hosted officially a program to promote the proposal.[85] Moon's Universal Peace Federation is in special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council[86][87] and a member of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development,[88][89] a member of the United Nations Division for Palestinian Rights,[90][91] a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council,[92][93][94] a member of the UNHRC,[95][96] a member of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.[97] Three of Moon's non-governmental organizations (NGOs)—Universal Peace Federation, Women's Federation for World Peace and Service for Peace—are in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.[86][87][98]
Other organizations
- International Relief Friendship Foundation (IRFF) [99][100]
- Joshua House Childrens Centre in Georgetown, Guyana helps homeless and victimized children.[101]
- Korean War 60th Anniversary Memorial Committee [102]
- National Committee Against Religious Bigotry and Racism[103]
- The New Hope East Garden Project, agricultural project in Brazil.[104]
- Ocean Church[105]
- Service For Peace[98]
- Summit Council for World Peace[106]
- Tongil Foundation[107]
- World Media Association, sponsors trips for American journalists to Asian countries.[108]
Organizations supported by the Unification Church
- American Conference on Religious Movements, a Rockville, Maryland based group that fights discrimination against new religions. The group is funded by the Church of Scientology, the Hare Krishna organization, as well as by Unificationists, who give it $3,000 a month.[35]
- American Freedom Coalition (AFC), a group which seeks to unite American conservatives on the state level to work toward common goals. The coalition, while independent, receives support from the Unification Church.[109]
- American Freedom Journal was a publication of the AFC published by Rev. Robert Grant.[110] The journal was started in 1988 and suspended publication sometime before 1994.[111] Contributors included Pat Buchanan, Ed Meese, Ben Wattenberg and Jeane Kirkpatrick.[112]
- Christian Heritage Foundation, a private, independent charitable foundation based in Virginia that distributes Bibles and Christian literature to Communist and Third World nations. In 1995 it was given $3.5 million by the Women's Federation for World Peace.[113]
- Empowerment Network, a pro-faith political action group supported by United States Senator Joe Lieberman.[114]
- Foundation for Religious Freedom (Also known as the New Cult Awareness Network.), an organization affiliated with the Church of Scientology which states its purpose as "Educating the public as to religious rights, freedoms and responsibilities." [115][116]
- George Bush Presidential Library. In June 2006 the Houston Chronicle reported that in 2004 Moon’s Washington Times Foundation gave a $1 million donation to the George Bush Presidential Library.[117]
- Liberty University. Sun Myung Moon and his wife Hak Ja Han helped to financially stabilize the University through two organizations: News World Communications, which provided a $400,000 loan to the University at 6% interest; and the Women's Federation for World Peace, which indirectly contributed $3.5 million toward the school's debt.[118]
- Married Priests Now!,[119] is an advocacy group headed by Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, who was himself married by Moon. MPN is a liberal Catholic organization calling for relaxing the rules concerning marriage in the Latin Rite Catholic priesthood.[120]
- Million Family March, 2000 rally in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the Unification Church and The Nation of Islam.[121]
- National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC), was given $500,000 by CAUSA International to finance an anticommunist lobbying campaign.[108]
- University of Bridgeport of Bridgeport, Connecticut.[122] In 1992, following the longest faculty strike in United States academic history, the University of Bridgeport agreed to an arrangement with the Professors World Peace Academy whereby the university would be subsidized by PWPA in exchange for control of the university. The initial agreement was for $50 million, and a majority of board members were to be PWPA members.[123] The next University of Bridgeport president was PWPA president and holocaust theologian Richard L. Rubenstein (from 1995–1999),[124] and subsequently former U.S. Unification Church president Neil Albert Salonen (2000–present).[125][126]
- World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO)[127][128][129][130]
See also
- List of Unification Church members
- List of supporters of the Unification Church
- Unification Church political activities
- Unification Church business activities
- Unification Church of the United States
References
- ^ Tingle, D. and Fordyce, R. 1979, Phases and Faces of the Moon: A Critical Examination of the Unification Church and its Principles, Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press ISBN 0-682-49264-7 p86-87
- ^ Biermans, J. 1986, The Odyssey of New Religious Movements, Persecution, Struggle, Legitimation: A Case Study of the Unification Church Lewiston, New York and Queenston, Ontario: The Edwin Melton Press ISBN 0-88946-710-2 p173
- ^ Helm, S. Divine Principle and the Second Advent Christian Century May 11, 1977 "In fact Moon’s adherents differ from previous fringe groups in their quite early and expensive pursuit of respectability, as evidenced by the scientific conventions they have sponsored in England and the U.S. and the seminary they have established in Barrytown, New York, whose faculty is composed not of their own group members but rather of respected Christian scholars."
- ^ Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America: African diaspora traditions and other American innovations: Introduction, Eugene V. Gallagher, W. Michael Ashcraft, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006, pages 94-95
- ^ "In 1955, Reverend Moon established the Collegiate Association for the Research of the Principle (CARP). CARP is now active on many campuses in the United States and has expanded to over eighty nations. This association of students promotes intercultural, interracial, and international cooperation through the Unification world view." [1]
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- ^ "The Peace Academy, based in New York, was founded by Moon in 1973. It is financed primarily by his International Cultural Foundation." [2]
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- ^ Yamamoto, J. I., 1995, Unification Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House ISBN 0-310-70381-6 "1. The Unification Theological Seminary a. The Unification Church has a seminary in Barrytown, New York called The Unification Theological Seminary. b. It is used as a theological training center, where members are prepared to be leaders and theologians in the church. c. Since many people regard Moon as a cult leader, there is a false impression that this seminary is academically weak. d. Moon’s seminary, however, has not only attracted a respectable faculty (many of whom are not members of his church), but it also has graduated many students (who are members of his church) who have been accepted into doctoral programs at institutions such as Harvard and Yale. [4]
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- ^ DANCE; A Small Place Reaches for Ballet's Big Time, New York Times, July 29, 2001
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- ^ South Korea to host global peace cup in JulySports Illustrated May 6, 2003
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- ^ Church Spends Millions On Its Image Washington Post September 17, 1984. "In May, a church political group called the Freedom Leadership Foundation paid for four Republican Senate staff members – including aides to Sens. Steve Symms (R-Idaho), Robert W. Kasten Jr. (R-Wis.) and William L. Armstrong (R-Colo.) – to fly to Central America where they met with government leaders and U.S. Embassy officials in Honduras and Guatemala and joined the official U.S. observer delegation to the Salvadoran election."
- ^ My Four and One Half Years with The Lord of The Flies, Allen Tate Wood "From March to December of 1970 I was head of the Unification Church's political arm in the United States (The Freedom Leadership Foundation). On Moon's behalf we sought to defuse the Peace Movement and buttress the hawk position by convincing senators and congressmen that there was substantial grass roots support for a hard line stand in Asia. In 1969 we were just scratching the surface. Today Moon's organization is in a position of vastly increased power and prestige. Through the Freedom Leadership Foundation and its descendant CAUSA, Moon has won the gratitude and respect of many congressmen and senators, not to mention former presidents Nixon, Reagan and Bush."
- ^ Sun Myung Moon forms new political party to merge divided Koreas Church and State, May 2003
- ^ New moons are rising, Asia Times, October 31, 2009
- ^ Neil Bush, the Rev. Moon, Paraguay and the U.S. Dept. of Education by Bill Berkowitz, Scoop (New Zealand), 2008-03-29.
- ^ The Pittsburgh Press, December 20, 1982, page 11
- ^ Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy
- ^ Church Spends Millions On Its Image Washington Post September 17, 1984. "The church also is spending $1.5 million a year on a new local think tank, the Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy, that is underwriting conservative-oriented research and seminars at Stanford University, the University of Chicago, the Institute for Energy Analysis in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and other institutions."
- ^ "Moon's 'Cause' Takes Aim At Communism in Americas." The Washington Post. August 28, 1983
- ^ Sun Myung Moon's Followers Recruit Christians to Assist in Battle Against Communism Christianity Today June 15, 1985
- ^ 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)."
- ^ 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)..."
- ^ Ribadeneira, Diego (August 21, 1999). "Ire at school Star of David ruling unites ACLU, Pat Robertson". The Boston Globe. The New York Times Company. p. B2.
- ^ Dorsey, Gary (August 26, 1999). "Unification Church group sues state over task force; Investigation of cults called unconstitutional". The Baltimore Sun. p. 2B.
- ^ Argetsinger, Amy (October 14, 1999). "Task Force Finds Few Instances of Campus Cults". The Washington Post. The Washington Post Company. p. M4.
- ^ Spiritual warfare: the politics of the Christian right, Sara Diamond, 1989, Pluto Press, Page 58
- ^ a b "Korean denies influence peddling". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
- ^ Wetzel, Frank (May 21, 1989). "More sunshine needed on Moon units". The Seattle Times. Seattle Times Company. p. A21.
- ^ Reid, T.R. (August 5, 1977). "House Subcommittee's Report Links Rev. Moon to the KCIA". The Washington Post. The Washington Post Company. p. A7.
- ^ Boettcher, Robert; Gordon L. Freedman (1980). Gifts of Deceit. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. pp. 152, 164. ISBN 0-03-044576-0.
- ^ After Cold War, Cold Peace National Catholic Reporter October 1, 1999
- ^ A Church in Flux Is Flush With Cash,
- ^ American Life TV targets baby boomers: Channel airing Clooney's Darfur docu Variety, June 1, 2007
- ^ Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, 15 others injured in helicopter crash Herald Tribune, July 19, 2008
- ^ Sons Rise in a Moon Shadow,Forbes, April 12, 2010
- ^ Clarke, Peter Bernard, 1999, Bibliography of Japanese new religions, with annotations and an introduction to Japanese new religions at home and abroad, Japan Library
- ^ Dept. of Religious Studies, Punjabi University., 1988, Journal of Religious Studies: Volume 16
- ^ "Moon's church settles into quiet fishing town". Rome News-Tribune. November 27, 1985.
- ^ Philippines political leader visits Kodiak, Kodiak Mirror, September 14, 2010
- ^ "Bayou La Batre residents embrace church they once called a cult"
- ^ Moon-Linked Sheraton National Hotel Sold, ARL Now, May 27, 2011
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- ^ "Operations Holdings INC | About Us". www.operationsholdings.com. Retrieved 2016-02-15.
- ^ North Korea in the midst of a mysterious building boom Los Angeles Times September 27, 2008. "Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, which also runs a car assembly plant in North Korea. The church last year completed work on what it calls the World Peace Center, behind the Potonggang Hotel, also owned by church affiliates."
- ^ Reverend Moon's Group Wants to Talk Investment: Seoul Nods At Church's Foray North, by Don Kirk, International Herald Tribune, June 2, 1999.
- ^ Sushi and Rev. Moon: How Americans' growing appetite for sushi is helping to support his controversial church Chicago Tribune, April 11, 2006
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Rev. Moon also founded numerous international, interfaith service groups, such as the International Relief Friendship Foundation, Religious Youth Service and Service for Peace, and sponsored thousands of conferences on world peace, family and interfaith issues.
- ^ International Relief Friendship Foundation
- ^ Church Spends Millions On Its Image Washington Post September 17, 1984."The church-financed International Relief Friendship Foundation recently shipped 1,000 pounds of clothing, nearly seven tons of food and medical supplies to Miskito Indian refugees in the jungles of Honduras, according to Joy Morrow, the foundation's Washington coordinator."
- ^ Prince Harry's visit to Guyana children's home founded by Moonies sect defended, Daily Mail, 2016-12-4
- ^ Korean War vets thanked by Little Angels in Norfolk, Virginian-Pilot, June 8, 2010
- ^ Guy, Pat (April 24, 1989). "MEDIA: Moon ads blast news magazine". USA Today. Gannett Company Inc. p. 2B, section: Money.
- ^ From the Unification Church to the Unification Movement, 1994–1999: Five Years of Dramatic Changes, Massimo Introvigne, Center for Studies on New Religions
- ^ "Moons Ocean Church casts nets for souls", Miami Herald – April 11, 1985
- ^ How South Korea and America wrecked chance for reconciliation with the North, The Guardian, July 11, 2014
- ^ Kirk, Donald (May 2, 2010). "Sons rise in a Moon's shadow". Forbes.
- ^ a b Church Spends Millions On Its Image, Washington Post, 1984-09-17.
- ^ Christianity Today: "Unification Church Ties Haunt New Coalition"
- ^ Diamond, Sara (1989). Spiritual warfare: the politics of the Christian right. Boston: South End Press. p. 78. ISBN 0-89608-361-6.
- ^ Jones, W. Landis; Weber, Paul J. (1994). U. S. religious interest groups: institutional profiles. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. p. 15. ISBN 0-313-26695-6.
- ^ Groupwatch: Profiles of U.S. Private Organizations and Churches. Albuquerque: N.M. Resource Center. 1989. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
- ^ Finance: Moon-Related Funds Filter to Evangelicals, Christianity Today, 2-9-1998
- ^ WTimes, Bushes Hail Rev. Moon, Robert Parry, 10-2-2009
- ^ Shupe, Anson; Darnell, Susan E. (2006). Agents of Discord. New Brunswick (U.S.A.), London (U.K.): Transaction Publishers. pp. 187, 191. ISBN 0-7658-0323-2.
- ^ Foundation for Religious Freedom
- ^ $1 million Moonie mystery
- ^ Fisher, Marc (November 23, 1997). "A Church in Flux Is Flush With Cash". Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-11-14. "Also in 1995, the Women's Federation made another donation that illustrates how Moon supports fellow conservatives. It gave a $3.5 million grant to the Christian Heritage Foundation, which later bought a large portion of Liberty University's debt, rescuing the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Lynchburg, Va., religious school from the brink of bankruptcy."
- ^ CNA: Married former priests warn against Milingo's group, December 8, 2006
- ^ U.S. Newswire: Archbishop Milingo: 'Married Priesthood Now'; Healer Missing from Italy Emerges in U.S., Proclaims End to Mandatory Celibacy, July 12, 2006
- ^ Thousands rally at million family march – racially and religiously diverse gathering
- ^ Judson, George (April 17, 1992). "Making the Hard Choice at Bridgeport U.: Opting to Stay Alive". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. p. B5. Retrieved 2009-10-06.
- ^ A Rev. Moon Group Offers to Take Over Ailing Bridgeport U., The New York Times, William Glaberson, October 3, 1991.
- ^ Richard Rubenstein: A Brief Biographical Note
- ^ Featuring Neil Albert Salonen in The American Chiropractor, July 30, 2005.
- ^ Financial agreements with PWPA have been terminated and the University has been financially independent since 2004. The University is a licensed and accredited Connecticut nonstock, non-profit corporation with an unpaid Board of Trustees.
- ^ The Words of the Milingo Family, Statement of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification On the Recent Publication of "The Fish Rescued from the Mud" by Archbishop Emanuel Milingo and Michele Zanzucchi
- ^ Rev. Moon and the United Nations: A Challenge for the NGO Community, Harold Paine and Birgit Gratzer, Global Policy Forum
- ^ WANGO
- ^ In Ban's UN, Sun Myung Moon's Paper is Praised, While Gambari Raises Him Funds, WFP Demurs Inner City Press, June 5, 2007
External links
- UPF website
- Projects and Activities Founded by Unificationists (Nearly all of these founded by Sun Myung Moon and affiliated with the Unification Church.)
- Reverend Moon Website
- Unification Church, Article on Rightweb