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2007
- July 15 2007 Two sides of Moon marriages, by TINA MOORE, New York Daily News, New York (Photos included.)
Twenty-five years after their Garden party, a look back
The photos snapped at Madison Square Garden on July 1, 1982, show hundreds of women wearing white dresses with high necklines, each holding a white bouquet and the arm of a man dressed in a navy blue suit, white shirt and white gloves...
...Many of the 2,000 Moonies had met only a few weeks earlier, when they were matched by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon...
...For some outsiders, the two-hour ceremony was an oddity, and the religion Moon had imported with him from South Korea seemed like a cult...
...The Unification Movement...
2006
- June 21, 2006 Abe gets flak for 'helping' Moonies, Asahi Shimbun, Japan
Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe has drawn criticism over a "congratulatory" telegram sent in his name to an affiliate of the Unification Church, whose members are known as "Moonies."...
...The National Network of Lawyers Against Spiritual Sales says the Unification Church conducts coercive sales and membership campaigns....
...The two were among seven Diet members who reportedly sent telegrams to a convention of the Universal Peace Federation, which was founded in 2005 and is represented by Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han Moon....
- April 14, 2006 Colleges consider stressing danger of pressure groups, by Cristina Silva, Globe Staff, Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts
...Steven A. Hassan, director of the Freedom of Mind Center in Cambridge, which offers counseling to former cult members. Hassan is a former member of the Unification Church, also known as the Moon cult, which had recruiters on BU's campus last fall...
- April 1, 2006 Survival Of The Richest, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, Moonies, and the Unification Church in their own words (Photo of Yeon Jin Moon included.)
On April 1, 2006, Yeon Jin "Kat" Moon is the next to youngest child of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han. Yeon Jin (Kat) was a contestant on a Warner Brothers Network reality show titled, "Survival of the Richest." She was voted off at the end of the first show...
- March 2006 Photo of Kat Moon, The WB, The WB Television Network
Survival of the Richest
...25-year-old Kat Moon decided to be on "Survival of the Richest" in order to "quell her chronic boredom."
- March 2006 Survival of the Richest, Chicago Tribune (Photo of Yeon-jin nim "Kat" Moon included.)
...when one of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's daughters, Yeon-jin nim "Kat" Moon, appeared on the new WB reality series "Survival of the Richest," the show called her a "religious empire heiress."
A top church official quickly sent a letter to members saying that the network "mischaracterizes the relationship between the church and its Founder, and that the church's assets cannot be inherited...
- February 22, 2006 Moonstruck, by Ron Russell, SF Weekly, San Francisco, California
The Rev. Moon has opened an unexpected front in his struggle to win a broader audience for his messianic pretensions: African-American churches and their preachers
Although largely ignored by the news media, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's visit to San Francisco last September to speak to 2,000 enraptured followers gathered in a Hilton hotel ballroom near Union Square was of no little consequence to the self-proclaimed Messiah and founder of the Unification Church...
...Korean-born founder of a religious movement often derided as a cult...Moon, who claims to have met Jesus on a mountain in Korea in 1935, has openly proclaimed himself the Messiah commissioned to complete Jesus' mission to restore humankind...
...(The Unification Church's formal name, since the mid-1990s, is the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification.)...
...in 1976. At the time, Moon enjoyed success enlisting young people, some of whose frantic relatives, along with other critics of the movement, insisted they were the victims of mind control...
...Moon founded the Unification Church in 1954 (its original name was Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity)...
- February 5, 2006 Free Yourself from Mind Control, Presented by Rachael Kohn, Spirit of Things, ABC Radio National, Australia
Program Transcript
Listen to the interview with Steven Hassan via Real Media, Download MP3 or Podcast
Steven Hassan is one of the world's experts on cults and cultic behaviour...
2005
- February 4, 2005 Unificationist group back for second go at charter, By Michelle Cornett, Pipe Dream, Binghamton University, New York
...CARP, the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles, has filed an official grievance with the S.A. judicial board over the November decision to reject its appeal for a charter, which would allow it to have meetings in University meeting rooms and table in the University Union, as well as possibly qualify it for funding...
...CARP is the student arm of the Unificationist Church, an internationally recognized religious group headed by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon...
...Branches of CARP currently exist at a number of other universities, including Cornell, the University of Maryland and the University of California at Berkeley...
...Members of CARP say they will hold no grudges if the Judicial Board upholds the S.A. decision, and are considering the possibility of starting a community service organization under a different name which is not linked to the church...
- February 11, 2005 Letter: Unmentioned points, Tenseng Guh, Junior, computer science, Pipe Dream, Binghamton University, New York
While the article covering CARP�s charter request (Feb. 4) remained, for the most part, unbiased, it still contained some inaccuracies and irrelevant and ambiguous points. The title itself is not accurate, as CARP is not technically a Unificationist group. It is a branch of the Unification movement, but is a separate entity altogether...
- February 15, 2005 Letter: Dark side of the Moonie, LF Desloge, Pipe Dream, Binghamton University, New York
I saw your story on CARP (Feb. 4) and I wanted to make you aware that it�s much worse than you think. It�s completely a Moonie front. I used to be president of CARP at San Francisco State U. about 20 years ago, and I will tell you that CARP acts as a recruiting arm of the Unification church...
- February 22, 2005 Letter: Look on the bright side, Tenseng Guh, Pipe Dream, Binghamton University, New York
I am writing in response to the letter against Rev. Moon (Feb. 15). To the author, I am sorry if you have gone through negative experiences in the past which led you to be infuriated enough to write your letter, as you had every right to do. I am sure you have some unresolved resentment that should�ve been fixed long ago...
- January 9, 2005 Ford Greene: Attorney at odds, By Tad Whitaker, IJ reporter, Marin Independent Journal,
Marin County, California (�and has won a landmark case before the California Supreme Court against the Unification Church that enabled former followers to sue for damages...
...With Shapiro's help, Greene argued and won a case in 1988 before the California Supreme Court that opened the door for former Moonies to sue the Unification Church for damages and, he says, "put cult-busting on the legal map."...)
More Information
- The Moon Organization - Steven Alan Hassan's Freedom of Mind Center
- WashingtonPost.com: Unification Church (The Rev. Sun Myung Moon founded the Unification Church in South Korea in 1954 and sent the first missionaries to the United States in 1959...)
- News World Communications, Inc. - Fact Sheet - Hoover's Online (...News World Communications is a newspaper publishing company owned by the Unification Church, which is controlled by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. The company publishes The Washington Times...In 2000 the company added struggling news service United Press International to its portfolio. Moon began publishing the Times in 1982, but has reportedly lost more than $1 billion on the venture...)
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