The court says the Federation of World Peace and Unification has inflicted ‘an unprecedentedly large amount of damage’ on Japanese donors, many of ...

The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification has designated a Hokkaido-based religious group as the recipient of its ... In June 2009, the church, sometimes informally called Moonies, decided ...

Loading Its followers were known as “Moonies”, and the church was accused of brainwashing and manipulating its members to make them buy expensive goods and spiritual merchandise, and donate ...

opposition parties have demanded that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party reinvestigate its members' ties with the controversial religious group, also known as the Moonies. The order, issued ...

A Japanese court ordered on Tuesday that a religious sect be stripped of official ... founded in South Korea and nicknamed the "Moonies" after its late founder, Sun Myung Moon.

A court in Japan has ordered the disbandment of the controversial Unification Church, which came under scrutiny after the shock killing of former prime minister Shinzo Abe in 2022. The alleged ...

But the church, more popularly known as the "Moonies", argued that the donations were part of legitimate religious activities. It can appeal to overturn Tuesday's ruling. The order handed down by ...