The church—often dubbed the "Moonies" church after late South Korean founder Sun Myung Moon—"is the first religious group subject to a revocation order under Japan's civil code," the Guardian ...

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 ...

Once a worldwide religious phenomenon battling accusations of cult-like behavior, the Unification Church and its members — colloquially referred to as Moonies — are once again on the defense.

Widely derided as a cult, the Moonies claimed less than 100,000 followers in Japan in recent years – less than .1% of the country’s population, but pseudo and new-wave religious groups are ...

The fringe church, whose members are known as "Moonies" after its founder Sun Myung Moon, has divided opinion for decades. For some, the group is "unfairly maligned", said the Financial Times last ...

Nicknamed the “Moonies,” after its founder, the church developed relations with conservative world leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump, as well as his predecessors Richard Nixon ...