Word: unificationism
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For the past 20 years. Bo Hi Pak. a onetime South Korean army officer, has been the trusted adviser of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, spiritual leader and founder of the Unification Church. One evening last September. Pak, who has been acting as leader of the church while Moon serves...
The FBI, notified by church officials of Pak's disappearance, contacted him in Washington. Pak revealed the kidnap plot to the FBI and canceled the wire transfer of the ransom money. Through his identification of the kidnapers, two of whom he knew personally, investigators tracked down and arrested six...
Religious leaders who support Moon are forced to agree with this argument if they want any moral and constitutional high ground to stand on, but many find its bald expression distasteful, as the National Council of Churches disapproves of religions which exalt documents or individuals whose genesis occured after Christ...
Though Moon has a compelling argument that the scope of his work makes the $25,000 the government was pursuing seem trivial, he was proved guilty; and the list of his expenditures does seem rather secular. Nonetheless, the issue of selective prosecution remains-why research the Unification Church for five...
There are several views about the cause of the perceived crisis. Unification Church officials agree that there is a government conspiracy to "get Reverend Moon." Dr. Lahaye in his testimony expressed concern that "secularist forces within the government [are] moving steadily and in an intruding way upon these [religious] freedoms...