Many Japanese see the church as a cult, with its mass weddings and solicitation of donations, although the church says it no longer engages in what it acknowledged were excessive practices in the ...

‘St. Paul’s was also where Linda said her final goodbye to Brian, holding his funeral in the same church where they had ...

Even the Cheongshim Peace World Center, where mass weddings have been ... of the revenue coming from Japan. According to South Korean media, the Unification Church owns 46.2 million square meters ...

Japan's education and culture ... was born into a Unification Church family. His parents were married in one of the group's mass weddings. "The second generation of followers trust their parents ...

Moon Sun Myung and his wife at a mass wedding in New York, 1982. The political fallout from the fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has shown that the church is well ...

Others from the Philippines, Brazil and other countries of Latin America are reshaping the Catholic Church as they have become the majority of Japan’s Catholics. For decades, Japan has resisted ...