Sun Myung Moon

Sun Myung Moon (generally called the reverend Moon ) is a man of origin Korea, founder of the Église of the Unification whose followers think that it is the Messie. He was born the January 6th 1920, fifth child of an rural family of eight, in a small village in the south of Korea.

Its life

At the sixteen years age, the morning of Sunday of Easter 1936, whereas he requested intensely with the side of a Korean mountain, Jesus would have appeared to him by entrusting a mission to him, to supplement the work of the Christ and to establish the kingdom of heaven on the Earth. During nine years which follow, by the way of the prayer, its study of the Holy Scriptures and its own experience, it realizes, which is called today by its followers, the “divine principle”.

While continuing its spiritual research, it leaves to study electrical engineering at the Waseda university, with the Japan. At the same time, he becomes member of a clandestine movement for the release of the Korea, under Japanese domination since 1905.

On its return in Korea, after the release of the country, it starts to preach initially in the South then with Pyongyang, capital of the mode Communiste of the North Korea . Credit in Christian mediums, it is not long in gaining many disciples. One night, it is stopped by the communist authorities which persecute all the religious, and tortured groups until being left for death; its body is then abandoned in a snow-drift, out of the court of the prison, where members of its congregation find it and look after it. Again stopped in February 1948, it is this time condemned to the forced labors in the communist camp of Hungnam - a camp of dead where the prisoners were systematically underfed and overworked. Their task consisted in filling of the bags of 50 kilos ammonia sulfate then to charge them on coaches. Few prisoners could endure more few months such a treatment. Itself will testify later to this time: “Never I did not request by weakness and never I did not complain. I even never requested His assistance from God. On the contrary, I entêtais myself to comfort It, to say to Him not to be done some for me. God knew how much I suffered, I did not want to point out and increase more still His own suffering to Him. I was thus satisfied to say to Him that I would never let myself overcome. ”

In October 1950, at the end two years and eight month of concentration camp, it is released, thanks to the forces of the United Nations sent to the help of South Korea.

Shortly after its release, after having gone during hundreds of kilometers towards the South, it settles in Pusan, where it builds its first “church”, a made tiny hut of mud and paperboard, with the side of a hill overhanging the city.

In 1954, it officially founds, in Seoul, the Association of the Holy Spirit for the unification of world Christianity (commonly called “Church of the Unification”). Since 1957, thirty Korean cities and communes see to set up new churches. In 1958, it sends its first missionaries towards close Japan, and in 1959, its first mission arrives to America.

In 1960, he marries Hak Ja Han, with which he will have twelve children.

In 1965, it embarks for its first round the world tour during which it visits forty countries. He undertakes a second great voyage of this type in 1969 and settles in the United States in 1972. In the four years space, he addresses his message to the fifty States, making speeches in particular in Carnegie Hall (1973), Madison Square Garden (1974) and the Yankee Stadium (1976) in New York, with for culminating point, the religious meeting most important ever organized in the capital of the country, in Washington Monument, where three hundred and thousand people (1976) meet.

In 1975, at the time of a voyage in Korea, it governs the most important gathering ever seen in the world, joining together more than 1,2 million participants, within the framework of the “world Gathering for Korean freedom”. This year, it sends missionaries in a hundred and twenty other countries of the world.

Nowadays, this movement is classified like a sect in a French parliamentary report of 1996.

Its mission

He intends to reform the globality of the Christian church and to serve very whole humanity in:

linking all the Christians;
évangélisant with the concern of working for a social justice.

According to deferring it Eric Laurent, Sun Myung Moon would be a close relation of the family Bush which would pay an special attention to her mission.

Marriages

to create a new race and to bring peace on ground, Moon Marie generally of the different nationality and coloured persons.
It chooses with its team which will marry with which.
It organizes marriages of mass. For example, “were blessed” by Moon and its wife:

3 couples, on April 16th, 1960, in Seoul
33 couples, on May 15th, 1961, in Seoul
72 couples, on June 4th, 1962, in Seoul
124 couples, on July 24th, 1963, in Seoul
430 couples, on February 22nd, 1968, in Seoul
13 couples, on February 28th, 1968, in Washington (the USA)
8 couples, on March 28th, 1969, in Essen (Germany)
22 couples, on May 1st, 1969, in Tokyo (Japan)
777 couples (of 10 nations), on October 21st, 1970, in Seoul
1800 couples (of 25 nations), on February 8th, 1975, in Seoul
74 couples (of 11 nations), on February 21st, 1977, in New York
118 couples (of 14 nations), on May 21st, 1978, in London
2075 couples (of 48 nations), on July 1st, 1982, in New York
6000 couples (of 85 nations), on October 30th, 1988, in Seoul
6500 couples (of 17 nations), on January 12th, 1989, in Seoul
1267 already married couples (of 44 nations) on April 10th, 1992, in Seoul
30.000 couples (of 131 nations), on August 25th, 1992, in Seoul and, via satellite, in 6 other countries (Japan, Philippines, Brazil, Nigeria, Kenya and Zaire)…

It receives a Ig Nobel of economy in 2000, to have stated to have then married 360.000 couples into 95 and finally 36.000.000 of couples in 1997.

Children

When a married couple (“blessed”) by Moon is sterile, another couple moonist having already children conceives some to give it to the first. To the birth, the baby is taken along by the new parents.

Charges of fraud tax

The reverend Moon was condemned several times during his life. The first time in Japan (for militancy in favor of the release of Korea), then twice in Korea de Nord for religious preaching.

He is also condemned in 1984 (or 1983) to the the United States to 18 months of prison for tax evasion of an amount of 8 000 US Dollar. Carlton Sherwood, an American journalist preceded Price Pulitzer, declared in a work entitled Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution off the Reverend Sun Myung Moon that the jury, during the lawsuit of the Reverend Moon, would have undergone pressure very strong. The judgment was regarded by many Protestant pastors as an attack with the Religious liberty.

One does not allow him to enter in France, because of this judgment for tax evasion.

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