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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 2 years

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World Leaders at UPF Conference this Past Weekend Memorialized both Shinzo Abe and Sun Myung Moon; FFWPU Worldwide Memorializes Moon

Last Friday at UPF’s “Summit 2022 and Leadership Conference,” a five-day international summit at the Jamsil Lotte Hotel in Seoul, Shinzo Abe was commemorated, which included a video message from Donald Trump, who claimed that Abe was a good friend of his and a great person, and expressed his gratitude for Hak Ja Han.

▲ Mike Pompeo speaking in-person

▲ Trump’s video message in memory of Shinzo Abe

▲ Participants were invited to put flowers on the stage

A picture of Abe was shown on a screen with his quote, "Peace is not given by someone. It should be won."

Speakers and presenters at the conference included Mike Pence, former Vice-President of the United States (2017-2021); Stephen Harper, Canadian Prime Minister (2006-2015); Newt Gingrich, US House Speaker (1995-1999); Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State (2018-2021); Dan Burton, US Congressman (1983-2013); and Brigi Rafini, Executive General, Community of Sahel-Saharan States and Prime Minister (2011-2021), Niger, Walter Sharp, Commander of United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command and US Forces Korea (2008-2011); Harry Harris, US Ambassador to Korea (2018-2021); and Joseph DeTrani, Special Envoy, Six-Party Talks with DPRK (2003-2006), Imboni Prophet Radebe, founder of The Revelation Spiritual Home in South Africa, Pastor Paula White-Cain, Senior Pastor, City of Destiny Church in the US; Jan Figel, European Union Special Envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion (2016-2019); and Massimo Introvigne, Managing Director, Center for Studies on New Religions, Italy, Sheikh Mansour Diouf, Head of the Murid Brotherhood, Senegal; Ibrahim Natatou, Minister of Education, Niger; Hamza Said Hamza, Minister of Youth and Sports, Somalia; Adi Koila Nailitikau, First Lady (2009-2015), Fiji; Mwaba Tony, Minister of Higher Education, DR Congo; Neziha Labidi, Minister of Women, Family and Children (2016-2020), Tunisia; Dr. Sok Siphana, Chairman, Asian Vision Institute, Cambodia; Jim Rogers, Chairman of Beeland Interests, Inc.; Bishop Don Meares, Senior Pastor, Evangel Cathedral, USA; Callista Mutharika, First Lady (2010-2012), Malawi; Dr. Song Yong-cheon, Chair, Sunhak Foundation; Dr. Hwang Sun-jo, President, Sun Moon University; and Dr. Yun Young Ho, Director General, FFWPU International.

As part of the Summit, on Sunday, August 14, participants went to the HJ Global Arts Center in Seorak, outside of Seoul, for a memorial program hosted by Hak Ja Han honoring her late husband Sun Myung Moon.

Leaders from all over the world sent messages, including Kim Jong Un, the Supreme Leader of the DPRK (North Korea): "Rev. Moon worked for the sake of world peace… and his achievements and legacy will be remembered for eons... We would like to wish prosperity and success to the International Family Federation and UPF." Kim sent flowers to the event.

Mike Pompeo, former CIA Director and US State Secretary, spoke in-person for ten minutes, hailing Moon and his accomplishments. Earlier that week, Pompeo spoke at the UPF event on religious liberty, likely due to the events in Japan.

“Rev. Moon and his peace work impacted millions,” said Cambodian Assemblyman Suos Yara, who delivered a message from Samdech Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Royal Kingdom of Cambodia.

Moon’s 10 year death (”ascension”) anniversary was observed this past weekend all over the world.

▲ Unification Church gathering in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

▲ Unification Church gathering Brazil

▲ Unification Church gathering in Thailand

▲ Unification Church in Malaysia

▲ Unification Church in Tanzania

Ten years since Moon has been dead, and the organizations he left behind, and the sects that have since formed, are continuing on his legacy of exploiting and abusing people for the sake of building personal wealth for a few elite church families as well as for the promotion of imperialist interests.

Hak Ja Han, Founder of Universal Peace Federation (UPF) declared she is “Female Jesus”

FFWPU President of IAPP Prosecuted for Money Laundering and Drug Smuggling in US Court; may be connected to UC / FFWPU Leadership

Leni Robredo is a progressive Moonie-supporter?

Abe’s “ties” with the Unification Church were politically motivated

The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe

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whatisonthemoon · 1 year

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Howard Wiarda on the Moonie-Organized “Global Economic Action Institute” (GEAI)

Howard J. Wiarda was an academic, associated with both Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

In the mid-1980s, I contracted with the Global Economic Action Institute (GEAI) to edit a book on development successes and democracy in the Third World. The main case studies were Costa Rica, Hungary, Ivory Coast, and Malaysia, so the project required me to acquire expertise on three countries that I didn't know well (Hungary, Ivory Coast, and Malaysia; Costa Rica I already knew well) — countries whose development I have followed closely over the years. I was not a completely independent actor in doing this small book: GEAI had given me a partially completed manuscript drafted by some of its own personnel and advisers that had a strongly pro-democracy, pro-free market slant. The draft was way too strident and conservative for me, but I could certainly support a moderate democracy/free market position. My assignment from GEAI was to take this draft, rewrite it, and convert it into prose that academics, think tankers, and policy experts could support. A handsome honorarium was involved.

So, I took the draft, started from word one to rewrite, toned down the more ideological language of the original manuscript, and introduced a tone into the report that was social-scientific and academic. The report forced me to do considerable new research; it also got me thinking seriously not just about analyzing development in the Third World but, for the first time in a policy sense, how to achieve development. Some twenty years later, I would return to these themes in my own, single-authored book on the developing nations where the main subject was what works in development and what doesn't.

I was about halfway through the project before I came to realize that GEAI was a front for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. This was a "Moonie" project, and I was working for the "Moonie Church." I hadn't realized this before since all the officials I'd dealt with at GEAI, as well as the individuals who'd done the first draft, were all Americans. What to do? Rev. Moon, he of the karate chop delivery, the mass marriages (in the thousands in a football stadium) of his followers, and some truly bizarre religious and political beliefs, was not my favorite fellow. I didn't want to sell out my academic reputation; on the other hand, the money was good, and I had been assured of complete academic freedom. So, I finished the project. It turned out to be a respectable monograph and was published by GEAI, even though, fearing for my reputation from being associated with the Moonies, I asked that my name not be listed as the author on the front cover.

In the course of doing this project, I got invited to several Moonie events in the Washington area. One was a large, annual Moonie reception for all its friends and hangers-on at the luxurious Marriott Hotel in downtown Washington. Iêda and I were amazed to find over 2,000 people present, the cream of Washington society and politics. We were also invited to other Washington Institute (another front for the Unification Church) sponsored seminars and policy forums; there I was surprised to find such luminaries as intellectual Richard Rubenstein, former Kissinger aide Hal Sonnenfeldt, philosopher and editor Morton Kaplan, and political boy wonder, then head of the Republican Young Americans for Freedom, Ralph Reed. All of these were friends or acquaintances of mine from Washington policy circles; I was as surprised to find them at a Moonie event as they were to find me. Rev. Moon had certainly bought himself access and influence in Washington; I assumed that, like me, they were all on the Unification Church payroll.

Fishing for Respectability - on the Unification Church’s “Global Economic Action Institute”

C-Span videos of Global Economic Action Institute conferences and panels - one of these videos ("Foreign Trade and Domestic Subsidy Policy") features Most Durst

Moon on why he founded the Global Economic Action Institute:

I founded the Global Economic Action Institute to help distribute and re-invest inactive, or "sleeping" money to make it work for the world. A world-level bank is necessary to go beyond the boundaries of any one nation. This bank will not lend to individuals, but only to nations. The world is coming into unity, which means that independent governments will merge into one to be more operable on a global scale. Only global thinking and institutions can solve the world's economic problems.

The Imperial Ghost in the Neoliberal Machine (Figuring the CIA)

Emperor of the Universe video.

#front organizations #front groups #economy #neoliberalism #politics #free market #geai #unification church #moonies #unification church in the untied states of america #unification church in the united states of america #unification church in usa #u.s. politics #academia #ffwpu #family federation for world peace and unification #center for strategic and international studies #Global Economic Action Institute

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brookston · 2 years

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Holidays

Battle of the Boyne Day

Carver Day (Missouri)

Different Colored Eyes Day

Divad Etep’t (Elder Scrolls)

Etch-A-Sketch Day

International Malala Day

Internet-Wide Day of Action for Net Neutrality

Malala Day

Michelada Day

National Collector Car Appreciation Day

National Hair Creator’s Day

New Conversations Day

Night of Nights

Orangeman’s Day (a.k.a. “The Twelfth;” Northern Ireland, Newfoundland and Labrador)

Paper Bag Day

Rainmaker Day (Salem, Oregon)

Ratha Yathra (a.k.a. King; parts of India)

Relieve Stress By Walking Outside and Calling the Hogs Day

Simplicity Day

Tirana Festival (Chile)

Unification Day (England; by Athelstan of England, 927 CE)

USA Woman VP Day

Visitation Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Eat Your Jell-O Day

National Pecan Pie Day

Second Tuesday in July

Alpenfest begins (Gaylord, Missouri) [2nd Tuesday thru Saturday]

Cow Appreciation Day [2nd Tuesday]

Independence Days

Kiribati (from UK, 1979)

Sao Tome and Principe (from Portugal, 1975)

Feast Days

Eid al-Adha, Day 3 [Muslim Feast of Sacrifice] (a.k.a. ...

Al Adha (Bahrain

Corban Bairam (Sudan)

Eid al Adha (Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen)

Eid ul-Ad’haa (Maldives)

Gurban Bayram (Azerbaijan)

Hari Arafat (Malaysia)

Hari Raya Qurban (Malaysia)

Id el Kabir (Nigeria)

Kurban Bayram (North Cyprus)

Kurban Bayramy (Turkey)

Qurbon Hayit (Uzbekistan)

St. Elizabeth of Hungary (Positivist; Saint)

Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Eastern Orthodox)

Germ (Muppetism)

Hermagoras and Fortunatus (Christian; Saint)

Jason of Thessalonica (Catholic Church)

John Gualbert (Christian; Saint)

Kronia (Kronos Festival; Ancient Greece)

Louis Martin and Marie-Azélie Guérin (Christian; Saint)

Naadam, Day 2 (Mongolia)

Nabor and Felix (Christian; Martyrs)

Nathan Söderblom (Lutheran, Episcopal Church (USA))

Pam Grier Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Surrealism Day (Pastafarian)

Vardavar (Pagan Prank Festival; Armenia)

Veronica (Christian; Saint)

Viventiolus (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [39 of 71]

Prime Number Day: 193 [44 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel; 1973)

California Girls, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1965)

A Dance of Dragons, by George R.R. Martin (Novel; 2011) [A Song of Fire and Ice #5]

Explorers (Film; 1985)

Family Feud (Game Show; 1976)

Pacific Rim (Film; 2013)

Point Break (Film; 1991)

Princess Mononoke (Animated Studio Ghibli Film; 1997)

Trouble for Trumpets, by Peter Cross and Peter Dallas-Smith (Children’s Book; 1984)

When Harry Met Sally (Film; 1989)

Today’s Name Days

Nabor, Felix (Austria)

Fortunat, Hilarije, Mislav, Proklo, Tanja, Živko (Croatia)

Bořek (Czech Republic)

Henrik (Denmark)

Armand, Härm, Härmel, Härmo, Herman, Hermann, Hermo (Estonia)

Herkko, Herman, Hermanni (Finland)

Jason, Olivier (France)

Siegbert, Henriette, Felix, Elenore (Germany)

Veronike, Veroniki (Greece)

Dalma, Izabella (Hungary)

Ermacora, Fortunato (Italy)

Heinrichs, Henriks, Indriķis, Ints (Latvia)

Izabelė, Margiris, Vyliaudė (Lithuania)

Eldar, Elias (Norway)

Andrzej, Euzebiusz, Feliks, Henryk, Jan Gwalbert, Paweł, Piotr, Tolimir, Weronika (Poland)

Nina (Slovakia)

Fortunato, Juan (Spain)

erman, Hermine(Sweden)

Hilary, Ilary, Larry, Veronica (Ukraine)

Bud, Buddy, Jason, Jay, Jayla, Jaylen, Laylin, Laylon, Jayson, Oscar, Osvaldo, Oswald, Oswaldo, Ozzie, Waldo (USA)

Jace, Jacey, Jacy, Jaison, Jase, Jasen, Jason, Jayce, Jaycee, Jaycen, Jayson, Live, Olivier, Olivia, Oliver, Ollie, Olly (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 193 of 2022; 172 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 28 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 5 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Héyuè), Day 14 (Bing-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 13 Tammuz 5782

Islamic: 12 Ḏū al-Ḥijjah 1443

J Cal: 13 Lux; Fiveday [13 of 30]

Julian: 29 June 2022

Moon: 98% Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 25 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Elizabeth of Hungary]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 22 of 90)

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 22 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Ur (Primal Strength) [Half-Month 13 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 7.26)

#calendar #Holidays

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brookstonalmanac · 2 years

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Holidays 7.12

Holidays

Battle of the Boyne Day

Carver Day (Missouri)

Different Colored Eyes Day

Divad Etep’t (Elder Scrolls)

Etch-A-Sketch Day

International Malala Day

Internet-Wide Day of Action for Net Neutrality

Malala Day

Michelada Day

National Collector Car Appreciation Day

National Hair Creator’s Day

New Conversations Day

Night of Nights

Orangeman’s Day (a.k.a. “The Twelfth;” Northern Ireland, Newfoundland and Labrador)

Paper Bag Day

Rainmaker Day (Salem, Oregon)

Ratha Yathra (a.k.a. King; parts of India)

Relieve Stress By Walking Outside and Calling the Hogs Day

Simplicity Day

Tirana Festival (Chile)

Unification Day (England; by Athelstan of England, 927 CE)

USA Woman VP Day

Visitation Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Eat Your Jell-O Day

National Pecan Pie Day

Second Tuesday in July

Alpenfest begins (Gaylord, Missouri) [2nd Tuesday thru Saturday]

Cow Appreciation Day [2nd Tuesday]

Independence Days

Kiribati (from UK, 1979)

Sao Tome and Principe (from Portugal, 1975)

Feast Days

Eid al-Adha, Day 3 [Muslim Feast of Sacrifice] (a.k.a. ...

Al Adha (Bahrain

Corban Bairam (Sudan)

Eid al Adha (Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen)

Eid ul-Ad’haa (Maldives)

Gurban Bayram (Azerbaijan)

Hari Arafat (Malaysia)

Hari Raya Qurban (Malaysia)

Id el Kabir (Nigeria)

Kurban Bayram (North Cyprus)

Kurban Bayramy (Turkey)

Qurbon Hayit (Uzbekistan)

St. Elizabeth of Hungary (Positivist; Saint)

Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (Eastern Orthodox)

Germ (Muppetism)

Hermagoras and Fortunatus (Christian; Saint)

Jason of Thessalonica (Catholic Church)

John Gualbert (Christian; Saint)

Kronia (Kronos Festival; Ancient Greece)

Louis Martin and Marie-Azélie Guérin (Christian; Saint)

Naadam, Day 2 (Mongolia)

Nabor and Felix (Christian; Martyrs)

Nathan Söderblom (Lutheran, Episcopal Church (USA))

Pam Grier Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Surrealism Day (Pastafarian)

Vardavar (Pagan Prank Festival; Armenia)

Veronica (Christian; Saint)

Viventiolus (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [39 of 71]

Prime Number Day: 193 [44 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel; 1973)

California Girls, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1965)

A Dance of Dragons, by George R.R. Martin (Novel; 2011) [A Song of Fire and Ice #5]

Explorers (Film; 1985)

Family Feud (Game Show; 1976)

Pacific Rim (Film; 2013)

Point Break (Film; 1991)

Princess Mononoke (Animated Studio Ghibli Film; 1997)

Trouble for Trumpets, by Peter Cross and Peter Dallas-Smith (Children’s Book; 1984)

When Harry Met Sally (Film; 1989)

Today’s Name Days

Nabor, Felix (Austria)

Fortunat, Hilarije, Mislav, Proklo, Tanja, Živko (Croatia)

Bořek (Czech Republic)

Henrik (Denmark)

Armand, Härm, Härmel, Härmo, Herman, Hermann, Hermo (Estonia)

Herkko, Herman, Hermanni (Finland)

Jason, Olivier (France)

Siegbert, Henriette, Felix, Elenore (Germany)

Veronike, Veroniki (Greece)

Dalma, Izabella (Hungary)

Ermacora, Fortunato (Italy)

Heinrichs, Henriks, Indriķis, Ints (Latvia)

Izabelė, Margiris, Vyliaudė (Lithuania)

Eldar, Elias (Norway)

Andrzej, Euzebiusz, Feliks, Henryk, Jan Gwalbert, Paweł, Piotr, Tolimir, Weronika (Poland)

Nina (Slovakia)

Fortunato, Juan (Spain)

erman, Hermine(Sweden)

Hilary, Ilary, Larry, Veronica (Ukraine)

Bud, Buddy, Jason, Jay, Jayla, Jaylen, Laylin, Laylon, Jayson, Oscar, Osvaldo, Oswald, Oswaldo, Ozzie, Waldo (USA)

Jace, Jacey, Jacy, Jaison, Jase, Jasen, Jason, Jayce, Jaycee, Jaycen, Jayson, Live, Olivier, Olivia, Oliver, Ollie, Olly (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 193 of 2022; 172 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 28 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 5 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Héyuè), Day 14 (Bing-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 13 Tammuz 5782

Islamic: 12 Ḏū al-Ḥijjah 1443

J Cal: 13 Lux; Fiveday [13 of 30]

Julian: 29 June 2022

Moon: 98% Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 25 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Elizabeth of Hungary]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 22 of 90)

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 22 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Ur (Primal Strength) [Half-Month 13 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 7.26)

#Holidays

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whatisonthemoonarchive · 5 years

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Don Diligent and the advanced humanoid race

First of all I want to thank you for your blog research and that I'm sorry your mother was almost abducted by Aliens.

However Rev moon has said that Aliens are low spirits who are being mischievous by playing with peoples minds.

He goes on to say that he is very angry with these low spirits who cause people to believe they are aliens.

No Don I don't believe Jesus was an Alien when he said I'm not from this world"

Sorry , perhaps you are spending to much time with your mom?

I know you left the Moon organization a few years ago now it's time to leave mommy!

Moon and the New Age

Over the years the Unification Church was linked to several New Age-type organizations, many of them deeply interested in parapsychology and Ufology. Along these lines the group most closely associated with the Moonies appears to have been the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship. Moon received several readings (such as this one) from its founder, Arthur Ford. Moon was brought into Ford's orbit by Anthony Brooke, the last of the "white rajahs" to rule Sarawak (now part of Malaysia) and British army intelligence veteran of the Second World War. After a brief struggle to retain his meager monarchy petered out in the late 1950s (amidst intrigues) Brooke became an "ambassador of global consciousness." Brooke first encountered Moon in 1964 and was immediately taken with him. He would go on to write glowingly of the Unification founder in Revelation for the New Age and Towards Human Unity.

Anthony BrookeBrooke spent time at Findhorn Foundation, an early New Age outpost located in Scotland. It was co-founded by Dorothy Maclean, a former employee of the British Security Coordination in New York City during the 1940s that helped establish the Office of Strategic Services (OSS, the precursor the CIA). Beyond this, the founders reportedly believed they were in psychic contact with aliens:

"Yes, aliens. The official Findhorn website states: 'The Findhorn Community was begun in 1962 by Peter and Eileen Caddy and Dorothy Maclean. All three had followed disciplined spiritual paths for many years and had been specifically trained to follow God’s will'. But 1962 was merely when Peter, Eileen and Dorothy moved to Findhorn. The Findhorn Community’s true origins lie in the 1950s, in the maelstrom of post-war fringe ideas and philosophies which eventually settled out as what we now call the ‘New Age’. Central to Findhorn’s origins lies a secret which the current leaders of the community would very much like to play down; flying saucers. For all their talk of the Community being formed by the guidance of God one of the core beliefs held by Findhorn’s founders in the ’50s and 60s was that flying saucers existed, existed and their occupants were in psychic contact with them. It was also an article of faith that physical contact with the saucers was not only possible, it was certain.

Dorothy MacleanIt appears that for a brief time in 1970 Doris Orme, allegedly the first Western Unification convert, taught classes at Findhorn. While there she met her future husband, who left Findhorn with her. Orme was brought there by Brooke, who at this time was prone to referring to Moon as "the messiah" when not trying to contact UFOs. Unsurprisingly, Moon appears to have had a keen interest in psychic phenomenon that spanned several decades. For instance, in 1974 while kicking off the third annual International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences (ICUS), Moon stated:

"The study of extrasensory perception has drawn the attention of quite a number of scholars in the academic community. In particular, the discovery that a dolphin can communicate with human beings intelligently deserves notice. Along the same lines, it has been observed that plants respond to the love and other emotional states of human beings. These discoveries suggest that our present view that the animal and plant worlds are lacking in consciousness and reason may be limited. We may now as well envision a universe in which a harmonious co-existence may be brought about between human beings and other creatures, where man, being the center of all things, may serve as the spokes of the wheel turning the whole universe in ultimate harmony and oneness."

Much of the interest was expressed via the International Cultural Foundation (ICF), an international umbrella organization that coordinated a variety of Unification projects. The ICF is generally overlooked by many critics of the Unification Church despite some of the curious interests it has promoted and several of its executive members. In 1983, for instance, its editorial board featured Neil Salonen, a longtime Moonie representative at the WACL, and Dr. Jose Delgado, a psychiatrist long linked to CIA behavior modification experiments and a friend of ARTICHOKE scientist (and channeller of The Nine) Andrija Puharich. The most well known projects of the ICF were the above-mentioned annual International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences (ICUS) events that sought to build a bridge between science and religion. Frequently they ended up endorsing a host of arcane topics. For instance J.B. Rhine, the famed parapsychologist who operated out of Duke University for many years, addressed one such ICUS confab.

But parapsychology was hardly the extent of Moon's interest in fringe disciplines. Extraterrestrial life was also addressed by the ICUS at least three times at its conferences, first in 1977 (addressed by a committee chaired by longtime American Security Council science adviser Eugene Wigner), again in 1978 with an entire group dedicated to the question this time around (this same group also held lectures on the nature of consciousness, with one being given by Wigner) and finally in 1985. The 1985 conference featured a discussion led by Bruce Maccabee, a optical physicist long employed by the Navy who worked on the Strategic Defense Initiative (a topic discussed at length during the regular Fringe series). Maccabee has a longstanding interest in Ufology and became a member of NICAP in 1969 and a member of MUFONin 1973 all the while working for the Navy. As was noted in another installment of Fringe, NICAP featured ample representation from the American Security Council, which also provided a lot of the public relations support for the SDI. I suspect Maccabee has probably had ample dealings with the old ASC crowd.

Bruce MaccabeeAnother Ufologist associated with the ICUS is journalist Hal Corbett McKenzie. McKenzie joined the Unification Church in 1969 shortly thereafter found himself working with the ICUS. He wrote professionally about UFOs since the 1970s and interviewed several Ufologist linked to the old ASC network such J. Allen Hynek and Budd Hopkins. In 2003 he began running a website, Cosmic Tribune, that focused on UFOs. He was also a member of Exopolitics. Naturally, McKenzie appears to have been a visitor of the World Anti-Communist League as well. Again, I would like to provide a big thank you to Don Diligent, a Unification defector, for his herculean efforts in uncovering this crucial information in providing insights into the Unification Church's ties to the New Age.

All the data in this section was provided by Don Diligent

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 7 months

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UC mass wedding of 1,000 couples probed for recruiting prostitutes, nannies

Philippine Daily Inquirer MANILA by Bobby Timonera 1996

Wedding bells set off the alarm. Did the grooms offer to have and to hold their brides or did they offer them jobs? This is what the Bureau of Immigration is trying to find out after the “mass wedding” held last January 23 between mostly South Korean men and nearly 1,000 Filipino women. The exchange of “I dos,” the bureau suspects, may be an operation to illegally recruit domestic helpers and prostitutes. Immigration Commissioner Leandro I. Verceles Sr. said his office will observe with “extreme caution” in approving the departure of the Filipino brides. He also ordered investigations into the suspicious weddings. “This could be a case of mail-order-bride-in-reverse operation which is illegal under our laws,” the commissioner said. The mass wedding of 984 couples at the Philippine International Convention Center was supposed to be only a religious rite and thus has no legal effect, Verceles pointed out.

Moonies It was under the auspices of the Seoul-based Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity whose members are also known as the “Moonies.” They are named after the controversial Rev. Sun Myung Moon of South Korea, leader of the church. The Rev. Chung-hwan Kwak, representing Moon, blessed the couples, which included people from the United States, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, but mostly South Korea. Verceles said the Koreans probably came over for the wedding ceremony when immigration agents at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) prevented 300 Filipino women from departing last month. They claimed to be members of the same church as the “Moonies”. Verceles dispatched immigration agents to the wedding site to gather the names of the couples. At the same time, he also alerted immigration personnel at the NAIA to prevent the brides from leaving while investigations are being conducted. Citing an intelligence report from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Verceles said that the “Moonies” had previously sponsored the recruitment of a large number of Filipino women to work in Korea. The same report said that late last year, 184 Filipinas were brought to Korea aboard a chartered plane. They were reportedly brought to a training center where they were housed for three days before being deployed as domestic helpers and prostitutes. The Unification church said it had no immediate comment.

Not first time It was the second mass wedding conducted in Manila by the said church. Last year, 1995, about 3,000 Filipinos were married in a basketball gym in Manila as part of a mass wedding performed by Moon via satellite from Seoul. They were among 360,000 couples married worldwide in that ceremony. “Originally, the blessing was available only to adherents of the Unification Church,” a statement from the group said. “Now, however, anyone wanting to (can) participate, regardless of religion, race or nationality.”

Prison term

… Moon, a South Korea native, served 13 months in a U.S. federal prison on charges of tax evasion [and document forgery] before being released in 1985. …

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Moonies demanded $2,000 from Koreans who wanted to have Filipinas as “housemaids and sex partners.”

Philippine Daily Inquirer MANILA by Bobby Timonera 1995 Farmers’ daughters are Moonie targets The Moonies are combing the Philippine countryside in search of farmers’ daughters to lure into their trap. One such innocent, Carlita, who is in her 20s, was lucky to get away. Carlita, her face covered with a towel, occasionally lapsed into tears and silence as she told reporters of her ordeal. This is her story. Sometime in November, the sect’s recruiters arrived at Carlita’s village in Nueva Ecija and asked the women if they would be interested in marrying Koreans. Photographs of Korean men were passed around. “OK, we’ll see if we get to like them,” the women said. They were told to attend a seminar at the sect’s church in Cabanatuan City. It was supposedly about the “ideal family.” Later, they were asked to wear nice clothing, were made up, and photographed. Then they were told that should authorities ask them about their marriage plans, they should answer that they have been writing to and talking with the Korean men over the phone for some time. Of the four women recruited, only three were matched with Koreans. One was apparently dropped. One day the women were invited to go to the church’s office in Manila in the company of Korean men. Along the way, the Koreans embraced them. Suddenly afraid, Carlita and another woman alighted from the vehicle near the Nepa Q-Mart market along Edsa in Quezon City. Carlita being a daughter of one of the peasant leaders of the Demokratikong Kilusang Magbu-bukid ng Pilipinas (DKMP), the other woman rushed to the DKMP office to report the incident. But their friend who was left behind was brought to the Unification Church’s headquarters at 32 Samar Avenue in Quezon City. It was this woman who told peasant leader Jaime Tadeo of the DKMP that a Caucasian, whose nationality she did not know, asked the Koreans to pay him $2,000. It was not known if the amount was payment for the recruitment job. But it jibed with a report from the Philippine Embassy in Seoul that the Moonies usually demand $2,000 from Koreans who wanted to have “housemaids and sex partners.” The transaction appears to be part of the sect’s fund-raising campaign. Tadeo, along with Carlita, went to the Bureau of Immigration office in Intramuros to seek its help in closing the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity in Cabanatuan City.

“We believe they are just using their church as a front for illegal recruitment,” Tadeo said.

_________________________________ Korean UC leaders made lots of money from “selling” hundreds of pure, faithful, Filipino sisters

Morpheus: “I was on a staff that helped organize picture matchmaking in the late 1990s. Rev. Moon would come in and match all these young Filipino sisters to older Korean men who were not even members. I’m not sure Rev. Moon was aware of the wheeling and dealing that would go on behind the scenes. Many of these farmers and land owners would mortgage their farm to be admitted to these picture matchings. The Philippine Government complained. Discovered later that Korean leaders made lots of money this way.” (April 22, 2015)

#unification church #moonies #hak ja han #sun myung moon #human trafficking

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 1 year

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Moon owned shares in Central City. They were sold for $925 million in 2012

This is an explanation of the 2012 sale of Central City that was put up in the Korea CARP Café.

Regarding the sale of Central City shares: We ask for our members’ understanding regarding a special situation.

According to a Yeon Hap News article from October 16, 2012, Shin Se Gye Shopping Mall acquired 60.02% of Central City’s shares from 4 separate companies in Malaysia. The price at which the shares were sold was approximately 1.025 trillion won (close to $925.7 million dollars). After quickly checking with representatives of Central City, we confirmed that the news is true.

For several years Central City was at a deficit due to bad management, however, recently that situation was turned around and operations were completely normalized to the point where it was making a profit and the value of the asset increased by several times. This process did not happen on its own, but it was due to True Parents dedication and Heaven’s support, along with the hard work of the management team of Central City. Especially, from the beginning of the project Mr. Dal Soon Shin who worked as president of Central City and his staff showed great administrative and managerial skill, and although he did not interfere with the details of management, Hyun Jin Nim has also been providentially guiding the work from behind the scenes.

From the members’ perspective Central City is not a providential institution like Pyung Hwa Motors or the Peace Cup which carry on specific providential work, but it is purely part of a business foundation. Currently the business is bringing in a profit and it has the potential to grow in the future as well. Naturally, people will wonder why it was decided to sell the company. From a business perspective, people will wonder whether it was the best moment to sell the shares. We asked those questions to representatives of Central City.

The representative said that the sale did not just happen suddenly, he explained that it was a decision based on a careful strategic study. Based on the assumption that this was his personal opinion, the representative said that the current decision was made as a measure to manage risk by reducing the burdensome debt the company acquired from the beginning; and considering the potential of a worldwide economic recession and its impact on the Korean market, it was a wise choice to sell the asset at the best price possible to maximize profits. He also added that selling the asset was a desperate measure of last resort to confront the endless lawsuits from the Tongil Foundation and the Unification Church, and in order to absolutely complete the Yoido Parc1 Project which is the fruit of the jeong-seong of our True Parents.

Although it isn’t appropriate to enter into the details at this moment in time, if the Tongil Foundation had not initiated all types of lawsuits against Y22 which was undertaking the Yoido Parc1 Project, it would have been possible to avoid selling the shares of Central City.

The figures of the legal fees incurred from the ever-increasing lawsuits are an astronomical amount of money that both sides have wasted. Also, the damage from having to stop and prolong the construction for 2 years at the Yoido Parc1 construction site (due to the Tongil Foundation’s lawsuits) has brought financial loss in the millions. But it does not end at that. After losing and appealing the case, chairman Kook Jin Moon of the Tongil Foundation and their board members have taken their Parc1 lawsuit to the Supreme Court and they are of the position of continuing the lawsuits for many years to come. Furthermore, in spite of having been sentenced by court to pay 45 billion won plus overdue interest as the first phase of damages, the [Tongil Foundation is trying to buy time and] refusing to pay up even as they incur a 20% yearly interest rate on the amount promised.

Although the assets that should be invested for God’s providence are being thrown away at a fast rate, and the Parc1 construction site looks like a scar on the city of Seoul, there is no end in sight to the meaningless and futile lawsuits which are creating a sick atmosphere in the entire Unification Movement. Perhaps we will experience the end of the Unification Movement even before the decisions are made on the lawsuits and it will be too late to regret what happened.

In this situation, when having to make a choice between [selling] the Yoido Parc1 project or Central City, perhaps most people would choose to keep the safe and profitable Central City which on its own is a quite big asset instead of choosing the wounded and uncertain Yoido Parc1 project. However, this decision was the complete opposite. This was perhaps a measure taken in order to not allow the foundation of dedication that True Father invested into Parc1 to be lost and to never allow his dream of finalizing the project to go to waste. The measure can be seen as a strong will to bring True Father’s dream to fruition. And it also contains the unbending resolve to fight to the very end these unjust lawsuits that are destroying the providence.

God’s will and the providence are eternal. The dream that True Father had for Yoido was not unrelated to God’s providence. Therefore, it will be accomplished regardless of what sacrifices have to be made. We sincerely pray that the sale of Central City’s shares was done with this kind of big purpose behind it. We also pray that all the lawsuits come to an end as soon as possible, and that we can bring an end to this period of fighting and distrusting one another, so that we may once again join forces and focus on realizing the legacy that True Father left behind for us.

Lonely Planet review for Central City Mall A popular mall next to the express bus terminal that includes Shinsegae Department store, a food court, a six-cinema multiplex, endless underground shopping and Nolboo Yuhwangorijinheukgui, a great duck restaurant.

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Yes it is in Gangnam!! Here is the map:

Hak Ja Han plans to open a THIRD palace at Cheongpyeong in May or June 2023

Yongpyong Resort, covering 4,300 acres, is owned by the Moons

Beaché Palace is owned by the Moons. Who paid for it?

The Ocean Resort in Yeosu is owned by the Moons

Another Moon owned golf course – part of Ocean Resort, Yeosu

Yeouido Parc 1 dispute – UC Foundation lose, Y22 win

Moon’s unused Geomun Island Palace

The Cheonjeonggung Museum has been called a ‘palace’ by some people. It should never be called a palace.

New Hope Farms International Equestrian Park

Belvedere purchased October 1972

#Central City #Sun Myung Moon #Unification Church #South Korea

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Rev. Chong-yong Yu Took Thousands from the Malaysian Church

Left: Kook-jin nim and In-jin nim with the Malaysian Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives (red tie); also present are Ariana Moon and Rev. Chong-yong Yu; Right: Kook-jin nim in conversation with the Speaker of the House of Representatives

“I left from the Malaysian Unification Church almost a decade ago. The main reason was the former national leader misused and took the public money and ran away to Korea. His name is Yu Choong-Yong, a Korean national leader of Malaysia around ten years ago. From when this case happened until now, the Unification Church HQ has never given us any explanation. This meant that UC HQ allowed the National Leader to seize the public money and not need to take the responsibility.”

April 15, 2022

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Zimbabwe Unification Church Tragedy – over a decade after Cleopas (Black Heung Jin)

Young members in South America were exploited by Korean leaders.

Rev Kim purchased a nice house in Seattle – paid for by the local members, and Rev Lee purchased one which he later sold for $450,000.

Complaints of corruption and a call for help from members of the UC in India

Indian rape reported to UC Continental director Chung-sik Yong – who, it seems, did nothing.

Dr. Chung-sik Yong caused many problems in Oceania and now, after an absence of over a decade, he’s back there (2013 letter).

Onni Durst lied under oath

Sun Myung Moon makes me feel ashamed to be Korean

#Malaysia #Unification Church #corruption #Chong-yong Yu #unification church in malaysia #unification church in asia #moonies #FFWPU #family federation for world peace and unification

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whatisonthemoon · 2 years

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Rev. Chong-yong Yu Took Thousands from the Malaysian Church

Left: Kook-jin nim and In-jin nim with the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives (red tie); also present are Ariana Moon and Rev. Chong-yong Yu; Right: Kook-jin nim in conversation with the Speaker of the House of Representatives

“I left from the Malaysian Unification Church almost a decade ago, the main reason is the former national leader misused and took the public money and ran away to korea. His name is Yu Choong Yong, a Korean national leader of Malaysia around ten years ago. After this case happen, until now, the UC HQ never gave us any explanation. This meant that UC HQ allowed the National Leader to seize the public money and not need take the responsibility.”

#unification church in malaysia #unification church in asia #unification church #moonies #yu choong yong

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howwelldoyouknowyourmoon · 6 years

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FFWPU demanded $2,000 from Koreans who wanted to have Filipinas as “housemaids and sex partners.”

Philippine Daily Inquirer MANILA

by Bobby Timonera

1995

Farmers’ daughters are Moonie targets

The Moonies are combing the Philippine countryside in search of farmers’ daughters to lure into their trap.

One such innocent, Carlita, who is in her 20s, was lucky to get away. Carlita, her face covered with a towel, occasionally lapsed into tears and silence as she told reporters of her ordeal. This is her story.

Sometime in November, the sect’s recruiters arrived at Carlita’s village in Nueva Ecija and asked the women if they would be interested in marrying Koreans. Photographs of Korean men were passed around.

“OK, we’ll see if we get to like them,” the women said.

They were told to attend a seminar at the sect’s church in Cabanatuan City. It was supposedly about the “ideal family.”

Later, they were asked to wear nice clothing, were made up, and photographed. Then they were told that should authorities ask them about their marriage plans, they should answer that they have been writing to and talking with the Korean men over the phone for some time.

Of the four women recruited, only three were matched with Koreans. One was apparently dropped.

One day the women were invited to go to the church’s office in Manila in the company of Korean men. Along the way, the Koreans embraced them.

Suddenly afraid, Carlita and another woman alighted from the vehicle near the Nepa Q-Mart market along Edsa in Quezon City. Carlita being a daughter of one of the peasant leaders of the Demokratikong Kilusang Magbu-bukid ng Pilipinas (DKMP), the other woman rushed to the DKMP office to report the incident.

But their friend who was left behind was brought to the Unification Church’s headquarters at 32 Samar Avenue in Quezon City.

It was this woman who told peasant leader Jaime Tadeo of the DKMP that a Caucasian, whose nationality she did not know, asked the Koreans to pay him $2,000.

It was not known if the amount was payment for the recruitment job. But it jibed with a report from the Philippine Embassy in Seoul that the Moonies usually demand $2,000 from Koreans who wanted to have “housemaids and sex partners.”

The transaction appears to be part of the sect’s fund-raising campaign.

Tadeo, along with Carlita, went to the Bureau of Immigration office in Intramuros to seek its help in closing the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity in Cabanatuan City.

“We believe they are just using their church as a front for illegal recruitment,” Tadeo said.

UC mass wedding of 1,000 couples probed for recruiting prostitutes, nannies

The mention of prostitutes in the newspaper article below is confirmed by:

Republic of the Philippines – Office of the President Philippine Center on Transnational Crime

“Korean sect …. Moonies … Documented cases include women eventually sold into prostitution upon arrival in Korea.”

Philippine Daily Inquirer MANILA by Bobby Timonera

1996

Wedding bells set off the alarm.

Did the grooms offer to have and to hold their brides or did they offer them jobs?

This is what the Bureau of Immigration is trying to find out after the “mass wedding” held last January 23 between mostly South Korean men and nearly 1,000 Filipino women.

The exchange of “I dos,” the bureau suspects, may be an operation to illegally recruit domestic helpers and prostitutes.

Immigration Commissioner Leandro I. Verceles Sr. said his office will observe with “extreme caution” in approving the departure of the Filipino brides. He also ordered investigations into the suspicious weddings.

“This could be a case of mail-order-bride-in-reverse operation which is illegal under our laws,” the commissioner said.

The mass wedding of 984 couples at the Philippine International Convention Center was supposed to be only a religious rite and thus has no legal effect, Verceles pointed out.

Moonies It was under the auspices of the Seoul-based Family Federation for World Peace and Unification / Unification Church / Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity whose members are also known as the “Moonies.”

They are named after the controversial Rev. Sun Myung Moon of South Korea, leader of the church.

The Rev. Chung-hwan Kwak, representing Moon, blessed the couples, which included people from the United States, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, but mostly South Korea.

Verceles said the Koreans probably came over for the wedding ceremony when immigration agents at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) prevented 300 Filipino women from departing last month. They claimed to be members of the same church as the “Moonies”.

Verceles dispatched immigration agents to the wedding site to gather the names of the couples.

At the same time, he also alerted immigration personnel at the NAIA to prevent the brides from leaving while investigations are being conducted.

Citing an intelligence report from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Verceles said that the “Moonies” had previously sponsored the recruitment of a large number of Filipino women to work in Korea.

The same report said that late last year, 184 Filipinas were brought to Korea aboard a chartered plane. They were reportedly brought to a training center where they were housed for three days before being deployed as domestic helpers and prostitutes.

The Unification church said it had no immediate comment.

“Originally, the blessing was available only to adherents of the Unification Church,” a statement from the group said. “Now, however, anyone wanting to (can) participate, regardless of religion, race or nationality.”

Prison term … Moon, a South Korea native, served 13 months in a U.S. federal prison on charges of tax evasion before being released in 1985. …

Catholic Church helps Filipinas running from violent FFWPU marriages in Korea

In November 2009, Philippine Ambassador to South Korea Luis Cruz warned Filipina women against marrying Korean men. He said in recent months that the Philippine Embassy in Seoul has received complaints from Filipino wives of abuses committed by their Korean husbands that caused separation, divorce and abandonment. As language and cultural differences become an issue, the Filipina women are regarded as commodities bought for a price.

Korean FFWPU leaders made lots of money from “selling” hundreds of pure, faithful, Filipino sisters

Morpheus (former FFWPU / UC member): “I was on a staff that helped organize picture matchmaking in the late 1990s. Rev. Moon would come in and match all these young Filipino sisters to older Korean men who were not even members. I’m not sure Rev. Moon was aware of the wheeling and dealing that would go on behind the scenes. Many of these farmers and land owners would mortgage their farm to be admitted to these picture matchings. The Philippine Government complained. Discovered later that Korean leaders made lots of money this way.” (22nd April 2015)

“Filipino people hate the Unification Church for selling off Filipina women to Korean men.”

“I recently met several Filipino people, and when I told them I was raised in the Unification Church, they were concerned. Their knowledge of the Unification Church is of young people in the Philippines on the street, selling rosaries and Catholic paraphernalia, hiding their Unificationist identity. Apparently Moonies over there are known for being young and being controlled by church leaders. This is a well-accepted fact in their country. Moonies are also known for their fasting, rejecting food till they reach their fundraising quota. Also, all these Filipino people, none who ever belonged to the church, told me that Filipino people hate the church for selling off Filipina women to Korean men.”

An extradition treaty meant Moon could have been charged with illegal recruitment and incarcerated in the Philippines. The UC then smashed the windows of the Philippine embassy in Seoul.

Violence by the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification / Unification Church – Republic of the Philippines Files Diplomatic Protest with Seoul

MANILA – The government has filed a diplomatic protest with South Korea after the Philippine Embassy in Seoul was damaged in a rally staged by members of the Unification Church, whose members are known as Moonies.

The Embassy filed the formal protest with the Korean foreign ministry on orders of Foreign Affairs Secretary Domingo Siazon. The embassy also asked for tighter police protection for its staff.

Based on the report from Seoul, demonstrations were held in front of the embassy by Korean members of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (HSA-UWC) on Feb. 13 and 14.

The demonstrators were able to cross police lines and smashed the windows of the embassy building.

The embassy said Korean policemen assigned to keep the demonstrations peaceful did not do anything to prevent the protest action from getting out of hand.

The demonstrations were spurred by the filing of charges with the Department of Justice by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) against the HSA-UWC leaders for alleged violations of the mail-order bride law.

The NBI said the sect leaders were involved in illegal recruitment of Filipino women under the guise of “marriage” with the Korean nationals.

Immigration Commissioner Lenadro Verceles earlier banned the members of the sect who participated in the “mass wedding” from re-entering the country.

He also placed in the immigration’s hold departure list close to 1,000 Filipino “brides” of the “Moonies” to prevent them from leaving for South Korea.

Verceles said that the “mass wedding” performed by the sect was merely a ploy to bring Filipino women to South Korea to work as domestic helpers or prostitutes.

Verceles also described the mass wedding as illegal and unauthorized, saying that the celebrants did not have the authority to perform the ceremony as required by Philippine law.

CFC/PS/smm

… A 31 October 1996 GMA-7 Radio-Television Arts Network report states that an extradition treaty was signed between the Philippine and South Korean governments; members of the Unification Church, including its leader, Reverend Sun Myong Moon, could then be charged with illegal recruitment and incarcerated in the Philippines. source: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada

Further information about the illegal activities of the FFWPU in the Philippines

Israel Houghton, Yolanda Adams, Hezekiah Walker, Noel Jones and A. Curtis Farrow are supporting the FFWPU which sold girls into slavery

#Family Federation for World Peace and Unification #Moonies #Unification Church #Sun Myung Moon

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The Unification Church trafficked thousands of Filipino women by 1996. Cases include women eventually sold into sex trade upon arrival in Korea.

Pictured: Interfaith Peace Blessing Held in Bacolod, Philippines 2012, officiated by Dr. and Mrs. Chung Sik Yong, Chair of UPF-Asia, representing Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han

Filipino Women Lured By Religious Sect Immigration official questions wedding via satellite KASAMA Vol. 10 No. 1 / January-February-March 1996 / Solidarity Philippines Australia Network

Hundreds of Filipino women are being illegally recruited by alleged members of the "Moonies" either to be brides, domestic helpers, sex slaves, prostitutes or factory workers. Philippines government officials raised the alarm when a series of "mass weddings" were hosted by the Seoul-based Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity founded by its controversial leader, Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

Last month, 984 Filipino women were married, mostly to Korean men, at the Philippine International Convention Centre. Rev Chung Hwan Kwak, representing Sun Myung Moon, officiated the weddings which also included a few men from America, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia and Japan. This latest wedding ceremony was the second held in Manila auspiced by the religious group. Last year around 3,000 Filipino women were married by Sun Myung Moon himself to Korean men via satellite from Korea. These Filipinas were among the 360,000 couples married worldwide in that ceremony.

Immigration Commissioner Leandro Verceles Sr. is linking the mass wedding ceremonies to the unscrupulous activities reported by Philippine Embassy officials in Korea. According to the embassy report, 184 Filipinas arrived in Korea last year aboard a chartered plane. For three days these unsuspecting women were trained as domestic helpers and prostitutes. Some recruits ended up as full-time workers illegally underpaid as “trainees.”

In another report, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration confirmed that South Korea needs 40,000 workers to boost the manpower of that country’s small businesses. Coincidentally, Sun Myung Moon has business interests in various industries such as soft drinks, machinery, mechanical parts and publishing in countries including the U.S. and Japan.

Many of the women came from the provinces visited by middle-men connected with the Moonies. Young daughters of farmers in Nueva Ecija said that a Caucasian man arrived in their village with photographs of Korean men looking for wives. Women who showed interest in meeting these men were told to attend a seminar run by the Moonies in Cabanatuan City. Apparently the seminar is intended to educate women about the “ideal family” as a preparation for their meeting with their prospective husbands in Manila.

Since there is legislation banning introduction agencies in the Philippines, the women were advised by their recruiter to tell authorities that their relationships with these Korean men are genuine and that they have been in communication with them for some time. For his service, the recruiter gets $2,000 from each man. This amount, according to the Philippine embassy in Seoul corresponds with fees usually asked from Korean men wanting “housemaids” and “sex partners.”

by Emere Distor

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Pictured: Hyun Jin Moon speaking at a CARP event in the Philippines, circa 2007/2008

Filipina Brides Who Got Married to Koreans under the Unification Church by Toshiko Tsujimoto from pages 125 and 144 of the book Filipino Diaspora: Demography, Social Networks, Empowerment and Culture – Edited by Mamoru Tsuda (2003)

Since February 2000, more than 300 Filipino women who joined a religious group, the Unification Church, and got married to Korean men, have been landing at Kimpo International Airport, and quite a large number of the women are running to the FCC to ask for help almost every day.

When talking about how they got involved in the religious group and came to Korea, they say their friends or coworkers in the Philippines asked them if they wanted to have Korean husbands. When they are recruited, they are never told about the Unification Church. They undergo a seminar in each chapter of the church, and then they are matched by the church to Korean men. if they like each other, they attend a mass wedding in Manila with hundreds of other couples. Korean men visit Manila for two to three days to attend the mass wedding, and they cover all the expenses for the wedding plus airfare of the Filipino women to come to Korea.

When the Filipino women arrive in Korea and start to live with their husbands, the women face many problems, like cultural differences, language barrier, and relationship with their mothers-in-law. Violence from their husbands is a particularly common and serious problem. Usually, their Korean husbands are not well educated, live in the countryside, and are generally farmers. Life in the countryside and work in the farm as well as the family life with the husband or mother-in-law seem to be a difficult experience for Filipina to accept.

Filipino women come to FCC with various problems and the most common case is violence from their husbands. There is no solution to this problem so far, and FCC is giving shelter and documenting evidences. FCC also asks for help from the Korean Catholic church regarding this problem.

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Modern-Day Slaves: Filipina Labor Trafficking Survivors Tell Their Own Stories

Lydia, 46, community organizer at Damayan Migrant Workers Association, NYC

Born: South Luzon, Philippines

Lydia was recruited as a missionary for a church in the Philippines and was brought to the United States under the auspices of helping the church raise money. She spent some years as a personal assistant for church members and then was given a position as a domestic worker for the director of the church.

On her work life: They make me believe that "You are a missionary, you have to follow what I have to tell you." So I just don't know what to say, how to say no. I don't know my rights. As soon as I came, they took my passport.

That was 24-hour job. I don't have days off. I was always hungry. They didn't give me an allowance, nothing!…. They didn't give me a salary. I remember they gave me a coat and watches—Gucci—but they didn't really treat me as a human being. One time I got sick, and I was told that I had a spiritual problem because I couldn't do the same work I was doing before… It was very controlling. I couldn't even talk to my family; I was not allowed to have a friend.

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Republic of the Philippines – Office of the President – Philippine Center on Transnational Crime

In 1996, 984 Filipino women were married in a Korean sect ceremony to Korean Moonies, after being matched by a computer. A $2,000 fee was collected from the groom. Documented cases include women eventually sold into prostitution upon arrival in Korea.

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The Roman Catholic Church of the Philippines tried to stop human trafficking of Filipinas by the Unification Church, which was a serious problem from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s. There were court cases against the UC.

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The Philippines prohibits the business of organizing or facilitating marriages between Filipinas and foreign men. The Philippine congress enacted Republic Act 6955 or the Anti-Mail-Order Bride Law in 1990 as a result of stories that appeared in the local press and media about Filipinas being abused by their foreign husbands.

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