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There are a number of organizations founded, run, or backed by Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church, which are affiliated with that church.[1] Commentators have mentioned Moon's belief in a literal Kingdom of Heaven on earth to be brought about by human effort as a motivation for his establishment of groups that are not strictly religious in their purposes.[2][3] Others have said that one purpose of these groups is to pursue social respectability for the church.[4] Together with the church and its followers these organizations constitute the Unification Movement.

For legal and tax purposes in several countries, various projects inspired or directed by Sun Myung Moon or members of his church are required to maintain existence as separate entities. Under United States federal tax law, 501(c)(3) charitable institutions, like churches, may not engage in certain types of political speech without losing their tax exempt status. As such, Moon, the Unification Church, and members of the church have created organisations such as CARP which operate under the less stringent requirements of a 501(c)(4) "non-profit, educational foundation".

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Multi-faceted organizations

Universal Peace Federation

The Universal Peace Federation[5] (UPF), formerly the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace (IIFWP)[6] includes the following organizations and initiatives under its umbrella:

  • Ambassadors for Peace[7]
  • Global Peace Festival, an international series of festivals under the motto: "One Family Under God." [8][9][10][11]
  • International Highway Project[12]
  • Middle East Peace Initiative[13][14]
  • World Summit of Leadership and Governance[15]

Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles

The Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP) is a non-profit, collegiate organization associated with the Unification Church.[16][17] It was founded in Japan at Waseda University in 1964. [18]

CARP had its student group status at USC revoked in 1994 and according to David Crandell, Director of Student Activities, his office would probably not allow the group to be active on campus if they requested to be reinstated.[19] The Office of Student Life at the University of California, Berkeley has received multiple complaints about CARP.[20] A Berkeley student who attended a CARP event at the request of a CARP member, is reported as saying "If I would have known, I would never have shown up.... they were very nice and I think they were sincere, but I also think I was misled."[21]

Interfaith organizations

  • The Assembly of the World's Religions was founded by Sun Myung Moon. The first assembly was held from November 15 to 21, 1985, in MacAfee, New Jersey. The second was from August 15 to 21, 1990 in San Francisco.[22]
  • Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace[23][24]

Educational organizations

  • Cheongshim Graduate School of Theology[25]
  • International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences
  • New World Encyclopedia received start up funding from the Universal Peace Federation through the Professors World Peace Academy.[26] The editor-in-chief is Frank Kaufmann, and the Editorial Review Board director is Andrew Wilson. As of July 14, 2008 there were 8,324 publicly accessible articles in the New World Encyclopedia. [27] It describes itself as "a wiki-based encyclopedia which contains carefully selected articles that are rewritten and supervised by a team of editors with academic and literary qualifications" which "aims to organize and present human knowledge in ways consistent with our natural purposes."[28]
  • The Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA) was formed in 1973 in Korea with support from Sun Myung Moon.[29] In 1992, following the longest faculty strike in United States academic history, the University of Bridgeport agreed to an arrangement with the Professors World Peace Academy whereby the university would be subsidized by PWPA in exchange for control of the university. The initial agreement was for $50 million, and a majority of board members were to be PWPA members.[30] The next University of Bridgeport president was PWPA president and holocaust theologian Richard Rubenstein (from 1995-1999),[31] and subsequently former U.S. Unification Church president Neil Albert Salonen (2000-present).[32][33]
  • Sun Moon University[34]
  • Unification Theological Seminary

Organizations in the arts

Sports organizations

Political organizations

  • American Freedom Coalition (AFC)[43], a group which seeks to unite American conservatives on the state level to work toward common goals. According to its president it had 300,000 members in 1988. The coalition, while independent, receives support from the Unification Church.[44]
  • CAUSA International was an international anti-communist organization active in the 1980s. It was noted for its sponsorship of educational conferences for ministers and of the documentary film Nicaragua Was Our Home.[45][46][47][48]
  • Freedom Leadership Coalition [49]
  • International Coalition for Religious Freedom[50]
  • Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy[51][52]

Businesses

The Unfiication Church and church members own a number of businesses in various countries. David Bromley, a sociologist at Virginia Commonwealth University, said: "The corporate section is understood to be the engine that funds the mission of the church. The wealth base is fairly substantial. But if you were to compare it to the Mormon Church or the Catholic Church or other churches that have massive landholdings, this doesn't look on a global scale like a massive operation."[53]

Other organizations

References

  1. ^ For a partial list, see Projects and Activities Founded by Unificationists. Nearly all of these were founded by Sun Myung Moon.
  2. ^ Tingle, D. and Fordyce, R. 1979, Phases and Faces of the Moon: A Critical Examination of the Unification Church and its Principles, Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press ISBN 0682492647 p86-87
  3. ^ Biermans, J. 1986, The Odyssey of New Religious Movements, Persecution, Struggle, Legitimation: A Case Study of the Unification Church Lewiston, New York and Queenston, Ontario: The Edwin Melton Press ISBN 0889467102 p173
  4. ^ Helm, S. Divine Principle and the Second Advent Christian Century May 11, 1977 "In fact Moon’s adherents differ from previous fringe groups in their quite early and expensive pursuit of respectability, as evidenced by the scientific conventions they have sponsored in England and the U.S. and the seminary they have established in Barrytown, New York, whose faculty is composed not of their own group members but rather of respected Christian scholars."
  5. ^ Universal Peace Federation
  6. ^ Universal Peace Federation
  7. ^ Ambassadors for Peace of North America
  8. ^ Global Peace Festival.
  9. ^ Peace Festival gathering in Washington UPI August 9, 2008
  10. ^ "Moonies" stage festival in Mongolia Mongolia Web August 23, 2008
  11. ^ Kenya asked to back world peace forum Daily Nation, August 31, 2008
  12. ^ THE PROPOSAL FOR CONSTRUCTING AN "INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAY"
  13. ^ Middle East Peace Initiative
  14. ^ During 2003, MEPI sponsored more than 20 projects and programs in Israel, Palestine, and around the world.around the world. (IRFWP)
  15. ^ IIFWP Newsletter, Spring 2003
  16. ^ World CARP
  17. ^ CARP USA
  18. ^ A National Movement Emerges: 1972-74 - A History Of The Unification Church In America 1959-74 - Michael L Mickler
  19. ^ "CARP moves to Row, causes concern", by Jonathan Atienza, Daily Trojan, September 16, 2008.
  20. ^ "Student groups under scrutiny: A look at high-pressure student groups", by Andrew R Quinio, California Patriot, February 2005 Print Edition.
  21. ^ "Volunteers Target Berkeley for Member Recruitment", by Nina Keefer, The Daily Californian, November 30, 1999.
  22. ^ Introduction and Brief History of the Assembly of the World's Religions
  23. ^ The Reunification of Korea and World Peace, Sun Myung Moon
  24. ^ Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace
  25. ^ Cheongshim Graduate School of Theology
  26. ^ About, Professors World Peace Academy
  27. ^ "Index of articles" New World Encyclopedia. Retrieved, July 14, 2008.
  28. ^ "Project Vision," New World Encyclopedia. Retrieved, June 25, 2008.
  29. ^ History of PWPA, Professors World Peace Academy
  30. ^ A Rev. Moon Group Offers to Take Over Ailing Bridgeport U., The New York Times, William Glaberson, October 3, 1991.
  31. ^ Richard Rubenstein: A Brief Biographical Note
  32. ^ Featuring Neil Albert Salonen in The American Chiropractor, July 30, 2005.
  33. ^ Financial agreements with PWPA have been terminated and the University has been financially independent since 2004. The University is a licensed and accredited Connecticut nonstock, non-profit corporation with an unpaid Board of Trustees.
  34. ^ Sun Moon University
  35. ^ Moon Church Founds Ballet School New York Times, 1990-09-08
  36. ^ Universal Ballet
  37. ^ Interview with Julia Moon exploredance.com
  38. ^ Inside and Outside the Korean Dance Scene
  39. ^ Sun Moon Peace Cup
  40. ^ Rev. Sun Myung Moon, his works
  41. ^ Korean influence: PSV's Hiddink hoping to win Peace CupSports Illustrated July 21, 2003
  42. ^ South Korea to host global peace cup in JulySports Illustrated May 6, 2003
  43. ^ Christianity Today: "Unification Church Ties Haunt New Coalition"
  44. ^ Christianity Today: "Unification Church Ties Haunt New Coalition"
  45. ^ "Moon's 'Cause' Takes Aim At Communism in Americas." The Washington Post. August 28, 1983
  46. ^ Sun Myung Moon's Followers Recruit Christians to Assist in Battle Against Communism Christianity Today June 15, 1985
  47. ^ Public TV Tilts Toward Conservatives, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting "While conservatives dismiss Bill Moyers' world-class documentaries on our constitutional checks and balances as "propaganda," they never mention PBS's airing of unabashed right-wing agitprop films such as Nicaragua Was Our Home (the pro-contra film produced by Rev. Sun Myung Moon's CAUSA, which funded the contras after Congress' ban)..."
  48. ^ CAUSA website
  49. ^ Church Spends Millions On Its Image Washington Post September 17, 1984. "In May, a church political group called the Freedom Leadership Foundation paid for four Republican Senate staff members -- including aides to Sens. Steve Symms (R-Idaho), Robert W. Kasten Jr. (R-Wis.) and William L. Armstrong (R-Colo.) -- to fly to Central America where they met with government leaders and U.S. Embassy officials in Honduras and Guatemala and joined the official U.S. observer delegation to the Salvadoran election."
  50. ^ http://www.religiousfreedom.com/about.htm "ICRF acknowledges with gratitude that, at the current time, it receives the bulk of its funding from institutions and individuals related to the Unification Church community."
  51. ^ Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy
  52. ^ Church Spends Millions On Its Image Washington Post September 17, 1984. "The church also is spending $1.5 million a year on a new local think tank, the Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy, that is underwriting conservative-oriented research and seminars at Stanford University, the University of Chicago, the Institute for Energy Analysis in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and other institutions."
  53. ^ A Church in Flux Is Flush With Cash,
  54. ^ American Life TV targets baby boomers: Channel airing Clooney's Darfur docu Variety, June 1, 2007
  55. ^ "Bayou La Batre residents embrace church they once called a cult"
  56. ^ Sushi and Rev. Moon: How Americans' growing appetite for sushi is helping to support his controversial church Chicago Tribune, April 11, 2006
  57. ^ Riverfront developer's origins are tied to Moon Richmond Times-Dispatch January 11, 2008
  58. ^ The Work of the Church: In Service to God and to Humanity - To Bigotry, No Sanction, Mose Durst
  59. ^ International Relief Friendship Foundation
  60. ^ Church Spends Millions On Its Image Washington Post September 17, 1984."The church-financed International Relief Friendship Foundation recently shipped 1,000 pounds of clothing, nearly seven tons of food and medical supplies to Miskito Indian refugees in the jungles of Honduras, according to Joy Morrow, the foundation's Washington coordinator."
  61. ^ Fisher, Marc (November 23, 1997). "A Church in Flux Is Flush With Cash", Washington Post. Retrieved on 2007-11-14.  "Also in 1995, the Women's Federation made another donation that illustrates how Moon supports fellow conservatives. It gave a $3.5 million grant to the Christian Heritage Foundation, which later bought a large portion of Liberty University's debt, rescuing the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Lynchburg, Va., religious school from the brink of bankruptcy."
  62. ^ Kennedy, John (February 9, 1998). "Finance: Moon-Related Funds Filter to Evangelicals", Christianity Today. Retrieved on 2007-10-30.  "$3.5 MILLION GIFT: In November, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Women's Federation for World Peace (WFWP), which is headed by Moon's wife, contributed $3.5 million to Christian Heritage Foundation (CHF) of Virginia for "educational purposes" in 1995."
  63. ^ The Words of the Milingo Family, Statement of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification On the Recent Publication of "The Fish Rescued from the Mud" by Archbishop Emanuel Milingo and Michele Zanzucchi
  64. ^ Rev. Moon and the United Nations: A Challenge for the NGO Community, Harold Paine and Birgit Gratzer, Global Policy Forum
  65. ^ WANGO
  66. ^ In Ban's UN, Sun Myung Moon's Paper is Praised, While Gambari Raises Him Funds, WFP Demurs Inner City Press, June 5, 2007

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