What Can Nonprofits do to Bring Back Youngstown?
The Nonprofit Quarterly
Sun Myung Moon, We Hardly Knew Ye—or Your Church's Finances! Moonies Self-proclaimed messiah Rev. Sun Myung Moon, leader to the Moonies, died last week, but his Unification Church remains a massive, multinational, tax-exempt conglomerate.
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Unification unions
Washington Post
14, 2012. Frances Ichijo kisses her husband, Yoshi Ichijo, while posing for a quick portrait photograph before attending a memorial service for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon at the Unification Church in Adams Morgan. Astrid Riecken / For The Washington Post ...
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Moon's Death Stirs Memories Of Happy World
East Hampton Star
2, the day the Rev. Sun Myung Moon died in South Korea. Mr. Moon, founder of the Unification Church, a businessman and self-proclaimed messiah, was known for officiating at the simultaneous marriage of thousands of couples and for founding The ...
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Washington Times issues fact-checking test
Washington Post (blog)
Washington Times founder the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. (John Marshall Mantel - AP) Thirteenth in a series of endless, tireless, exhaustive, hairsplitting, obsessive, resounding, never-before-attempted, late-night and conclusive posts on the fact-checking ...
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Thanks, Rev. Moon, for making us fight back
New Jersey Jewish News
I know that it is unseemly to speak ill of the dead, but at first glance there is little good that we can say about the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, who died earlier this month. For most people, the very mention of ...
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New Jersey Jewish News

Moon vows: For better, for worse | The Journal Gazette
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Moon vows: For better, for worse. Michelle Boorstein | Washington Post. Washington Post. In November 1997, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and his wife blessed couples in a mass marriage. Like all marriages, some of them failed, some succeeded. Mike Breen ...
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The Washington Times celebrates its 30th
Politico (blog)
The Washington Times, the conservative newspaper, is holding two events in honor of its 30th anniversary, which comes on the heels of the death of the paper's founder, Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon. Attendees for the first event include: Syndicated columnist ...
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Funeral for Rev. Moon a time of reflection for church
Washington Times
Church sources say Mrs. Moon, a constant presence at her husband's side during his long and at time controversy-filled ministry, could be planning a global tour along the lines of many undertaken by her husband. The younger Rev. Moon, 33, made clear in ...
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Funeral held for Sun Myung Moon
Irish Times
Sun Myung Moon, a self-proclaimed messiah who founded the Unification Church that once boasted millions of members, was buried at a church-owned mansion modelled on the White House today after a two-week mourning period. Tens of thousands of ...
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Though united in a crowd by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, couples say marriages ...
Washington Post
Mike Breen was a 30-year-old church magazine editor in London in the summer of 1981 when he and hundreds of others were called by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon to an all-night matching ceremony in Germany. Terrified that he'd be married for eternity to “a ...
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Thousands in SKorea attend funeral for Rev. Moon
Stamford Advocate
Bereaved family members carry a coffin containing a body of the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the controversial founder of the Unification Church, during his funeral service at the CheongShim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, South Korea, Saturday, Sept.
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Thousands in SKorea Attend Funeral for Rev. Moon
The Associated Press
... AssociatedPress. Tens of thousands of tearful mourners attended the funeral of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church who built a multibillion-dollar business empire stretching from the Korean Peninsula to the United States ...
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Unification Church members hold tearful funeral for late founder Rev. Moon in ...
Washington Post
GAPYEONG, South Korea — Tens of thousands of mourners sobbed, sang, prayed and vowed to cherish the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's teachings Saturday as they said goodbye to their self-proclaimed messiah and “True Father,” whose death earlier this ...
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Thousands Attend Rev. Moon's Funeral
ABC News
Tens of thousands of mourners sobbed, sang, prayed and vowed to cherish the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's teachings Saturday as they said goodbye to their self-proclaimed messiah and "True Father," whose death earlier this month shed light again on his ...
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ABC News

Rev. Moon lauded for efforts to reunify Koreas
Washington Times
Thousands of people fill the stadium at the Cheong Shim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, Korea on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012, for the seonghwa, or ascension, ceremony, known as the traditional funeral in western terms, for the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
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Funeral for Rev. Sun Myung Moon draws thousands in South Korea
NBCNews.com (blog)
Unification Church honour guards carry the coffin containing late Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon during his funeral ceremony at the Cheongshim Peace World Center in Gapyeong. Tens of thousands of mourners were expected to turn out for the ...
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Excommunicated African archbishop mourns Rev. Moon
Catholic Culture
Milingo—who was Archbishop of Lusaka from 1969 to 1983, before his erratic behavior brought him into conflict with the Vatican—married a Korean woman in a group ceremony at which Rev. Moon presided. He later declared that he was patriarch of the ...
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Rev. Moon's youngest son heads to North Korea
The Seattle Times
Rev. Moon's youngest son heads to North Korea. A Unification Church official says the youngest son of the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon has left South Korea for the North Korean capital to meet with mourners. The Associated Press ...
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The Rev. Sun Myung Moon to be laid to rest in South Korea
CNN
(CNN) -- Up to 30,000 people are expected to gather in Cheongpyeong, South Korea, on Saturday for the funeral of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the controversial founder of the Unification Church who died this month. The ceremony, at the church-built ...
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The Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Washington Informer
The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Korean-born founder of the Unification Church and builder of a worldwide business empire has died. In life, Moon proved to be a savvy church leader and a shrewd businessman. Born in a village in what is now North Korea, ...
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Congressman who crowned Rev. Moon the Messiah attends dedication of ...
Washington Examiner
More than a dozen lawmakers attended a congressional reception this year honoring the Rev. Sun Myung Moon in which Moon declared himself the Messiah and said his teachings have helped Hitler and Stalin be “reborn as new persons.” At the March 23 ...
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Unification Church faithful make pilgrimage from around the world to pay their ...
Washington Times
“Before Rev. Moon passed, he said, 'Don't be sad. Think about how from now on you're going to be like me,'” recalled Mr. Iparraguirre, who was born in Peru.”To me, that means be somebody who really loves God, loves people and loves America.” In the ...
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UPF-Liberia Finally Honors Rev. Sun Myung Moon; Senator Ballout, Dr. Tipoteh ...
Liberian Daily Observer
In a statement issued Wednesday in Monrovia, the charter of UPF said that, “Rev. Moon has left indelible footprints on the sand of time and that his countless positive contributions not only to Liberia's peace and progress but the entire world would ...
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Milingo: Rev. Moon's legacy is in religious unity
Washington Times
GAPYEONG, South Korea — Unification Church founder Rev. Sun Myung Moon's work on behalf of harmony among the world's great faiths will be among his most lasting achievements, Emmanuel Milingo, the onetime Zambian Catholic archbishop defrocked ...
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Sam Venable: Tip$ on how to bring in the $heave$
Knoxville News Sentinel
Such was the case with the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, jillionaire founder of the Unification Church, who died last week at age 92. Please understand: Everybody is welcome to (1) profess his or her faith and (2) contribute heavily to same. But when The Rev ...
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Unification Church poised for new era, officials say
Washington Times
GAPYEONG, South Korea — The Unification Church is strongly positioned to preserve and expand both its global spiritual outreach and its commercial holdings as tens of thousands of believers gather to say a final goodbye to founder Rev. Sun Myung Moon ...
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Frederick Clarkson, on Rev. Moon, the Moonies and Something New and Worse
OpEdNews
"Rev. Sun Myung Moon was among the most pernicious anti-democratic figures in the United States in the latter half of the 20th century. Moon hated America. He hated our tradition of individual rights and independent thought. He hated democracy and said ...
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Rev. Moon's son greets mourners in North Korea
Albany Democrat Herald
The youngest son of the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon arrived in North Korea on Friday to receive mourners for the founder of the Unification Church, who died at age 92 earlier this week. The elder Moon was born in a village in what is now North Korea. He ...
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Unification Church founder Rev. Moon dies at 92
The Associated Press
GAPYEONG, South Korea (AP) — The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the self-proclaimed messiah who turned his Unification Church into a worldwide religious movement and befriended North Korean leaders as well as U.S. presidents, has died, church officials ...
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Sun Myung Moon
TIME
The Rev. Sun Myung Moon was proof that charisma is not necessary to start a religion; organization is. Through decades of steady expansion, his Unification Church became exceedingly wealthy. His organizing principle was the family, with himself and his ...
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Moon wake shows family tension
UPI.com
11 (UPI) -- The Rev. Sun Myung Moon's eldest son Dr. Hyun Jin Moon's car was blocked from proceeding to his father's wake by security guards. Hyun Jin Moon arrived at World Center in in Gapyeong County to pay his respects to his father whom he has not ...
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Moon over Louisville: When the self-proclaimed messiah came to town
The Courier-Journal (blog)
(Michael Clevenger photo / The Courier-Journal). The only time the Rev. Sun Myung Moon spoke publicly in Louisville in recent years, at least that I can find record of, came in 2001, when the self-proclaimed “Messiah and True Parent” was on a 50-state ...
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