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According to George Chryssides, about half of the Unification Church's 500 full-time members in Britain moved to the United States. [296] The Unification Church sold seven of its twelve principal church centers after the ruling. [297] Other anti-cultists in countries like Germany sought to incorporate the London High Court's decision into law ...
Unification Church (aka Moonies) – 1–2 million [318] World Peace and Unification Sanctuary Church – 0.003 million [citation needed] La Luz del Mundo – 1–5 million (see La Luz del Mundo#Membership statistics) Unitarian Universalism – 0.6 million [319] Unitarian Universalist Association – 0.1 million [320]
In 1989, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Unification Church members preferred to be called "Unificationists." [52] The Washington Post reported that "Unification Church members are being advised no longer to accept the designation of 'Moonie,' and to declare any such nomenclature as indicative of a prejudiced view of the church."
“(Aum) only numbers over 1,200 members or so; however, the Unification Church has penetrated many layers of Japan’s society – some members are housewives, some work in factories, others are ...
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Nansook Hong – Ex-wife of Hyo Jin Moon and ex-member of the Unification Church. Author of book about her experiences, In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family. [22] [23] Dong Moon Joo is a Korean American businessman. A member of the Unification Church and is best known as the president of The Washington Times.
[212] [213] In 1991 Donald Trump criticized Unification Church real estate investments as possibly disruptive to communities. [214] As of December 1994, Unification Church had invested $150 million in Uruguay. Members own the country's largest hotel, one of its leading banks, the second-largest newspaper and two of the largest printing plants ...
In the 1940s and 1950s, he was imprisoned multiple times by the North and South Korean governments during his early new religious ministries, [16] formally founding the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, simply known as the Unification Church, in Seoul, South Korea, in 1954.