# Unification Church · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow Source: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/atlas/library/canon/unification-church/ · The Congregation of Tomorrow · the Atlas · language: en The same words a person sees on this page, nothing more and nothing hidden. Our own words are free to use under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), naming the Congregation of Tomorrow. Words of others keep their own terms. Every page of the site, listed: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/pages.json · the whole site in one file: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/llms-full.txt ← The Canon: all 125 The Canon · No. 110 Unification Church Family Federation for World Peace and Unification; Moonies 1954 CE – present · Abrahamic · Living · South Korea, Japan, US VIII. POSTWAR & CONTEMPORARY — 1945 – PRESENT ### How many ### Who began it ### What it is for ### What it worships ### What it holds ### What it does ### After death ### Its texts ### Its branches ### Of note ### Its timeline - 1935 CE Moon's reported Easter vision. - 1946–50 CE Imprisoned in North Korea, including in the Hungnam labour camp; freed by advancing UN forces in 1950. - 1954 CE The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity founded in Seoul. - 1966 CE Divine Principle published. - 1971 CE Moon relocates to the United States. - 1970s CE Rapid US growth; the church becomes the central case study of the anti-cult movement, and the target of deprogramming — the forcible abduction and coercive re-education of adult members, which was itself prosecuted as kidnapping and which collapsed as a practice in the 1990s. - 1982 CE 2,075 couples married at Madison Square Garden. Moon is convicted of tax fraud and serves 13 months, in a prosecution that drew support for him from mainstream religious bodies concerned about precedent. - 1982 CE The Washington Times founded; the church becomes a significant funder of American conservative politics. - 1990s CE Blessing ceremonies of hundreds of thousands, linked by satellite. - 2012 CE Moon dies; leadership passes to Hak Ja Han, and the family splits into rival factions including one led by a son that is heavily armed and rifle-themed. - 2022 CE Shinzo Abe is assassinated in Japan by a man who said his mother's ruinous donations to the church had destroyed his family. The killing triggers a national reckoning over the church's fundraising, the resignation of ministers with church ties, and a government move in 2023 to strip its legal religious status in Japan. ### Sources Not yet checked against named sources. This entry is the house's reading; until it is checked, treat each claim as unverified. Correct it, with a source. The Atlas The Door