The court says the Federation of World Peace and Unification has inflicted ‘an unprecedentedly large amount of damage’ on ...
The Unification Church is the first religious group in Japan to face a revocation order under civil law. Two other groups have lost their status previously but due to criminal cases – Aum Shinrikyo, ...
The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification is the first religious group to face a revocation order under Japan’s ...
A Japanese court ordered on Tuesday that a religious sect be stripped of official recognition, the government said, in the ...
The church, which is formally known as the Family Federation for World Peace ... whose followers are informally known as Moonies. This name derives from that of the church’s founder, the and ...
The Unification Church has been stripped of its legal status in Japan following a request triggered by the assassination of ...
On Tuesday, a Tokyo court revoked the legal status of the Unification Church in Japan, ordering the sect known as the Moonies ...
Two earlier case involved criminal charges—the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, which carried ... Bible and conservative, family-oriented value systems. Nicknamed the “Moonies,” after its ...