Countercult ministries often concern themselves with religious sects that consider themselves Christian, but hold beliefs thought to contradict the Bible, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Unification church, Christian Science, and Jehovah's Witnesses.

As Martin's definition suggests, the countercult ministries concentrate on non-traditional groups that claim to be Christian, so chief targets have been The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science and the Unification Church, but also smaller groups like the Swedenborgian Church

Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church ( many of whose members were targets of deprogramming ) issued this statement in 1983:

* Deprogramming Article in Unification Church sponsored wiki-encyclopedia.

Rachel White Scheuering writes that, when SEPP began, it was affiliated with the Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy, a think tank run by Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.

Moonie is a pejorative term sometimes used to refer to members of the Unification Church.

Church members have used the word " Moonie ", including Sun Myung Moon, President of the Unification Theological Seminary David Kim, and Moon's aide Bo Hi Pak.

In the 1980s and 1990s the Unification Church of the United States undertook an extensive public relations campaign against the use of the word by the news media, including hiring civil rights activist Ralph Abernathy to equate it with the word " nigger ".

The word " Moonie " is derived from the name of Sun Myung Moon, the founder and leader of the Unification Church.

The 2002 edition of The World Book Dictionary does not note a negative connotation, defining it simply as: " a follower of Sun Myung Moon "; nor does the 1999 edition of the Webster's II New College Dictionary, which defines it as " a member of the Unification Church established and headed by Sun Myung Moon.

The Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan describes it as a colloquial term to refer to a member of the Unification Church.

It became prevalent and was used both by critics of the Unification Church, as well as by church members themselves.

The word " Moonie " used within the Unification Church itself and by church members in public as a self-designation.

Defense counsel for Sun Myung Moon instead asserted use of the word in the jury selection process was necessary to identify the Unification Church and to question jurors about possible prejudice.

" Judge Gerard L. Goettel instructed the jury that the case involved the Unification Church, Sun Myung Moon, and his followers, whom the judge stated were " sometimes referred to as Moonies.

In 1984, The Washington Post noted: " Members of the Unification Church resent references to them as ' Moonies '", and quoted one church member who said " Even in quotation marks, it's derogatory ".

In 1985, the president of the Unification Church of the United States, Mose Durst, asserted there was a positive change in perception of the church after Moon's trial and his conviction on federal tax violations and conspiracy: " In one year, we moved from being a pariah to being part of the mainstream.

The Unification Church hired civil rights activist Ralph Abernathy to equate the word " Moonie " with the word " nigger ".

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, by 1989 Unification Church members preferred to be called " Unificationists " rather than " Moonies.

" The Washington Post reported that " Unification Church members are being advised no longer to accept the designation of ' Moonie ,' and to declare any such nomenclature as indicative of a prejudiced view of the church.

" In 1989 the Chicago Tribune was picketed after referring to members of the Unification Church as Moonies.

Unification Church official Michael Jenkins ( who later became president of the Unification Church of the United States ) commented in 1989 on his views of why the Unification Church was shifting its public stance regarding use of the word: " Why, after so many years, should we now be taking such a stand to eliminate the term ' Moonie?

The Code of Ethics of the European Franchising Federation is self-enforced in seventeen European states where their national franchise associations are members of the European Franchise Federation ( EFF ) and the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law UNIDROIT.

Since this also results in a prediction for the relative strengths of the fundamental interactions which we observe, in particular the weak mixing angle, Grand Unification ideally reduces the number of independent input parameters, but is also constrained by observations.

Grand Unification is reminiscent of the unification of electric and magnetic forces by Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism in the 19th century, but its physical implications and mathematical structure are qualitatively different.

* The survival horror Martian Gothic: Unification is set on a research base on the surface of Mars, and a volcanic vent of Olympus Mons is also explored.

' For me, it is a sign that the American Unification Church has come of age.

Unification Church member Kristopher Esplin told Reuters what is normally done if the word is seen in media sources: " If it's printed in newspapers, we will respond, write to the editor, that sort of thing.

This is a label which members of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church find demeaning and offensive, and I'd like to apologize for its use.

Rosalind Millam's 2002 book Anti-Discriminatory Practice notes that " Its followers are better known as Moonies "; the entry on the Unification Church in the book is titled: " Unification Church ( Moonies )".

In its entry on " Unification Church ", the 2002 edition of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage advised: " Unification Church is appropriate in all references to the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, which was founded by the Rev.

Reuters, in its handbook for journalists, says: "' Moonie ' is a pejorative term for members of the Unification Church.

* 1963 – The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.

* The flags of Cyprus and Kosovo ( and that of the Australian territory of Christmas Island ) are the only national flags which depict the shape of the area that they represent ( the Korean Unification Flag depicts the Korean Peninsula, although it is not an official flag in either North or South Korea ).

One lowly rank in the Romulan Guard is " uhlan " ( TNG's " Unification Part II ").

The Unification of Bulgaria is accomplished.

The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity is a new religious movement founded in South Korea in 1954 by the late Sun Myung Moon.

It is more commonly known as the Unification Church or the ' Moonies ' ( this latter name is unofficial and usually considered derogatory ).

The Blessing ceremony of the Unification Church, a wedding or marriage rededication ceremony, is a church practice which has attracted wide public attention.

The Washington Times was founded in 1982 by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the Unification Church which also owns newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and South America, as well as the news agency United Press International.

" Unification " has political as well as religious connotations, in keeping with the church's teaching that restoration must be complete, both spiritual and physical.

In 1976 the Unification Church's made its headquarters in New York in the New Yorker Hotel, a 40-story Art Deco building, as well as the one of the first skyscrapers in the world.

In their influential book The Kingdom of the Cults ( first published in 1965 ), Walter Ralston Martin and Ravi K. Zacharias disagreed with the Divine Principle on the issues of the divinity of Christ, the virgin birth of Jesus, the Unification Church's belief that Jesus should have married, the necessity of the crucifixion of Jesus, and a literal resurrection of Jesus as well as a literal second coming of Jesus.

Observers of the Unification Church, as well as some church members, had speculated about the issue of Unification Church leadership after Moon's death.

However, this theory ignores the brutal colonial wars waged by the western nations against countries outside Europe ; as well as the German and Italian Wars of Unification, the Franco-Prussian war, the Crimean War, and other conflicts in Europe.

They also consider it established a holiday called " True Parents ' Day ," as well as what Unification Church members refer to as the " True Family ".

Otto von Bismarck, chancellor of the German Empire from 1871 – 1890 and the " engineer " of the Unification of Germany in 1871, had a connection to Greifswald when he studied at the agricultural college, as well as one of his successors, Prince Bernhard von Bülow, who was chancellor of the German Empire from 1900 to 1909.

As well as the exhibits, visitors can see the Grand Hall of the Nation, the Monument to the Nation, and the Unification Bell.

However, the Unification of Italy some fifty years later did not bring any benefit to the city, being cut off from the main railway line Naples-Benevento-Foggia, and far from the sea as well.

On the topic of Spock's future, Nimoy notes that the Star Trek franchise shows no sign of dying, and that as far as he is concerned, Spock is still alive and well working on Romulus ( as seen in the two-part episode " Unification " of Star Trek: The Next Generation ).

An articulate champion of religious freedom, Shupe has conducted fieldwork on the Unification Church and other new religious movements, as well as their opponents.

Rubenstein was a defender of the Unification Church and served on its Advisory Council, as well as on the board of directors of the church-owned Washington Times newspaper.

German nationalists, seeking the Unification of Germany, cited the Treaty of Ribe and wished to integrate the ethnically mixed Schleswig as well as the all-German Holstein, which until 1806 had been part of the Holy Roman Empire and then was part of the German Confederation, into a new German Empire.

Unification of moderates and radicals as well as unity between Muslim League and Indian National Congress was a remarkable achievement of Mrs Annie Besant.