Re: Unification Church: An Introduction to the Kaleidoscope by Eileen Barker, Livedoor reports that Unification Church is more of a "dating agency"

The U.S. Office of the Unification Church said in a statement on July 9 that the group condemned the violence and that "guns have no place in our religious beliefs or practices."

Jeffrey J. Hall, a researcher at Kanda University of Foreign Studies in Japan, said that although the "Unification Church" originated in South Korea, it is already "one of the emerging religious groups" more active in Japan. Provided a firm conservative voter base for the Liberal Democratic Party. "They weren't the only religious conservative voters who voted for the LDP, but they were one of them."

According to the New York Times, in the early 1960s, Myung Moon began to marry congregants in Seoul (now Seoul). In 1982, he held a mass wedding for 2,075 devotees in New York, USA. In 2009, he held a mass wedding for 10,000 devotees in South Korea.

According to the Japanese media "Livedoor", "Unification Church" is more like a "blind date agency", stationed in a large area in Japan to match people. Moon Myung's vision of "transnational collective marriage" regards South Korea as "Adam" and Japan as "Eve". The combination of the two satisfies Moon Myung's advocacy and pursuit of the so-called perfect family. Another school of thought says that in the early years, rural Korean men faced the problem of marriage difficulties, which led to the prevalence of seeking Japanese brides. Now, there are even Korean men who invest money in education just to find Japanese brides.

In an excerpt from Eileen Barker's book The Unification Church: AKaleidoscopic Introduction, the Unification Church is said to have around 3 million followers in 2018. A reporter from The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) checked the official website of the U.S. branch of the "Unification Church" and found that the "Unification Church" has branches all over the United States.

On May 6, 1997, the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China identified the "Unification Religion" as a cult organization in the Reply to the Public Security Departments and Bureaus of 10 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government including Jilin. .

After Myung Moon's death in 2012, the Unification Church is now run by his widow. https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1738047836644735049&wfr=spider&for=pc