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Shincheonji. Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony ( SCJ ), commonly known as Shincheonji Church of Jesus or simply Shincheonji ( Korean : 신천지; Hanja : 新天地; lit. New Heaven and New Earth; IPA: [ɕintɕʰʌndʑi] ), is a new religious movement established in South Korea by Lee Man-hee.
In 1971, the first official criminal report and lawsuit was filed against the Tabernacle Temple and the leaders including Yoo Jae-Yeol. Amongst the followers who filed the complaints were Lee Man-hee and Hong Jae-ho, the founders of Shincheonji Church of Jesus, another pseudo-Christian group that is still active today in South Korea. [15]
Lee Man-hee (Korean: 이만희; Hanja: 李萬熙; born 15 September 1931) is a South Korean cult [1] [2] [3] leader. Lee is the founder of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, a South Korean religious group with teachings derived from Christianity that is considered a pseudoreligion or cult by mainstream Christian churches.
The Shincheonji church is a controversial, secretive religious sect in South Korea. And now it's being blamed for a huge rise in the number of coronavirus cases in the country. The national tally ...
Lee Man-hee, the 88-year-old leader of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, has been charged with tampering with the investigation into the coronavirus cluster, including ordering church officials to ...
World Mission Society Church of God. / 37.3804; 127.1175. / 37.3839; 127.1087. The World Mission Society Church of God is a new religious movement established by Ahn Sahng-hong in South Korea in 1964. [ 5] The church believes that Ahn Sahng-hong is the Second Coming of Jesus, and that Zahng Gil-jah is God. [ 6]
New religious movements such as Jehovah's Witnesses, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Eastern Lightning, World Mission Society Church of God, and Shincheonji Church of Jesus are also active in Vietnam.
In February 2020, Singapore began a probe into the unregistered local chapter of the South Korean new religious movement Shincheonji Church of Jesus. The apocalyptic, messianic sect was known for being the centre and cause of the first large-scale COVID-19 outbreak in South Korea. The group had fewer than 100 members in Singapore and operated ...