Word: unificationism
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Rev. Preston Hannibal, acting minister of Memorial Church, said several years ago Harvard students affiliated with the Unification Church tried to join the United Ministry at Harvard.
Timothy Fulop, a visiting professor in Americanreligious history at the Divinity School, said "ofthe 70s `cults,' [the Unification Church] seems tobe the most controversial today."
But Richard Buessing, a current member andformer pastor of the Boston Unification Church,said reports that the church brainwashes andkidnaps youths date back to the 1970s. "The mediapersecuted us," he said.
They traveled to Cambridge at the request ofthe New England chapter of the Unification Church,he said
Even in the Irish Republic, unification is far down the list of national priorities, if indeed it ranks at all. Dublin is now preoccupied with European integration and getting its economic house in order. "We in the South have become so psychologically accustomed to partition that many people refuse to...