A court in Japan has ordered the disbandment of the controversial Unification Church, which came under scrutiny after the ...

On Tuesday, a Tokyo court revoked the legal status of the Unification Church in Japan, ordering the sect known as the Moonies ...

The controversial "Moonies" church that fell under scrutiny after the 2022 assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister ...

Yamagami’s mother donated more than 100 million yen ($1,055,400), including life insurance and real estate, to the group ... Its followers were known as “Moonies”, and the church was ...

SEOUL — No more mass weddings, no more “Moonies”: The wellspring of the funds that the Unification Church has lavished on religious and business activities worldwide is drying up. That’s the ...

A Japanese court ordered on Tuesday that a religious sect be stripped of official recognition, the government said, in the ...

Two earlier case involved criminal charges: the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, which carried out a sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, and Myokakuji group, whose executives were ...

But the church, more popularly known as the "Moonies", argued that the donations ... believers who said they were forced to donate to the group have demanded compensations amounting to 5.7 billion ...

A government spokesman told AFP that the Tokyo District Court "issued the dissolution order" for the Japanese chapter of the Unification Church, founded in South Korea and nicknamed the "Moonies" ...

The alleged assassin had confessed that he held a grievance against Abe because of the ex-leader's ties with the church, more popularly known as the "Moonies ... donate to the group have demanded ...

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.