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?

This organisation sought to influence the ranks of the larger Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) and also worked closely with the more left wing anarchists of the Durruti Column.

That same year, Unification Church held the Interreligious Peace Sports Festival between the people of various faiths, which is, according to the UNESCO official data, " an annual sporting event designed to build and promote friendship and peace among people from different cultural and religious backgrounds using the powerful medium of sports competition ".

In 2012, a spokesman of an Unification Church-affiliated tourism-oriented body signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Taleb Rifai, the Secretary-General of UNWTO, " to promote a culture of peace through tourism ".

In the 1960s sociologist John Lofland lived with Unification Church missionary Young Oon Kim and a small group of American church members in California and studied their activities in trying to promote their beliefs and win new members.

The African Unification Front is an organisation aiming to promote the political, social and economic union of Africa.

The National Unification Council, established in February 1990, is a governmental agency of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) which no longer functions but whose formal aim is to promote reintegration of mainland China into the Republic of China.

In the 1960s sociologist John Lofland lived with Unification Church missionary Young Oon Kim and a small group of American church members in California and studied their activities in trying to promote their beliefs and win new members.

* National Unification Council, a governmental body in the Republic of China on Taiwan whose aim is to promote unification with Mainland China

Other plot lines include Jessica's adopted daughter Corinne courting Father Tim Flotsky, who ended up leaving the priesthood, and the two eventually marrying and having a child who is possessed by the Devil ; Chester being imprisoned for Peter's murder, escaping with his prison roommate Dutch, and being afflicted with amnesia after a failed operation ; Jessica's other daughter, Eunice, sleeps with a married congressman, and then falls in love with Dutch ; Mary's stepson Chuck, a ventriloquist whose hostilities are expressed through his alter ego, a quick-witted dummy named Bob ; Jessica's love affairs with several men, including Donahue, a private investigator hired to find the missing presumed-dead Chester, her psychiatrist, and a Latin American revolutionary known as " El Puerco " (" The Pig "; his friends just call him " El "); Billy Tate's confinement by a cult called the " Sunnies " ( a parody of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Movement, called the " Moonies " by its critics ), and then his affair with his school teacher who becomes unhinged ; Danny and his romantic trials with the daughter of a mobster, a black woman, a prostitute, and Chester's second wife, Annie ; and Burt's confinement to a mental institution, his abduction by aliens while being replaced with an oversexed alien look-a-like on Earth, and getting blackmailed by the Mob after becoming sheriff of their small town.

A power vacuum was inadvertently created when private soldiers were promoted to the rank of corporal as an incentive for continuing in the Forces at a time when Unification ( and the role of the United States in the Vietnam War ) made the military an unpopular option for employment.

The International Institute for the Unification of Private Law, abbreviated UNIDROIT, is an intergovernmental organization on harmonization of private international law ; its projects include drafting of international conventions and production of model laws.

Unification came with the Law on Unification of National Education, which introduced three regulations: First, all medreses and schools administered by private foundations or the Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı ( Presidency for Religious Affairs ) were connected to the Ministry of National Education.

In 1998, the Unification Movement launched its operations in North Korea with the approval of the Government of South Korea, which had prohibited business relationships between North and South before ; and built a church there.

Predominantly Prussian traditionalists, the party members had been skeptical at first about the 1871 Unification of Germany — unlike the Free Conservative Party, a national conservative split-off dominated by business magnates unrestrictedly supporting the policies of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.

* 1814 – Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire Italian Unification.

According to the same poll, if status quo is not an option and the ones who were surveyed must choose between " Independence " or " Unification ", 65 % are in favor of independence while 19 % would opt for unification.

According to a December 2009 poll from a Taiwanese mainstream media TVBS, if status quo is not an option and the ones who were surveyed must choose between " Independence " or " Unification ", 68 % are in favor of independence while 13 % would opt for unification.

Unification of the two peoples would mean neutralization and careful constraining.

Unification theology teaches that Jesus achieved this perfection only on the individual level ( a lesser accomplishment than that of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han, they believe that had Jesus not died on the cross he would have married, together they would have become " True Parents " and created a " True Family " and they would save humanity and perfect the world.

The opening date was deliberately chosen by the French so as to ensure the conference would commence on the anniversary of the Unification of Germany which had been proclaimed at Versailles 48 years earlier.

In addition, the " One Without " was that Chen's administration would not abolish the National Unification Council ( later abolished in 2006 ) or the National Unification Guidelines though during his administration the National Unification Council met only once.

The new society would come to be known as the Romulan Star Empire — where Surak's philosophy of peace and logic survives only as an underground movement within their emotional, warlike society for the next 2, 000 years ( until further shepherded, in the Star Trek Next Generation episode " Unification ", by the elderly Ambassador Spock in the role of a latter-day successor to Surak ), while flourishing on Vulcan to become its predominant philosophy.

Unification would help the central organization fight corruption, yet would not contaminate the CIO unions.

The University was approached by the Professors World Peace Academy ( PWPA ), an affiliate of the Unification Church, but their offer to bail out the University was spurned by the trustees who said the school was " not going to have anything to do with the offer " and were concerned that such an affiliation would damage the University's reputation.

Chryssides predicted that she would lead the Unification Church and preside over blessing ceremonies after Moon's death, since she would then be " the remaining True Parent.

The Basque Country had fallen, the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) had been crushed by the Stalinist Communist Party of Spain, and many foreign governments felt it was only a matter of time before the question of who would rule Spain would be settled in favour of the Nationalists.

The communist parties, the Communist Party of Spain and Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ), advocated anti-colonialist policies whereby the Republican Government would support the independence of Spanish Morocco, intending to create a rebellion in Franco's back and cause disaffection among his Moroccan troops.

" According to CCM's diagnosis, Mormons, Roman Catholics, the Unification Church, United Churches, and hundreds of other new religious groups would also fall within the CCM's definition of being a " cult ".

The Unification Church wanted to distribute the film on their own, but Young told them this would result in a " total disaster ".

At the group's meetings, al-Arsuzi would talk about, for instance, the French Revolution, the Meiji Restoration, German Unification and Italian Unification, or about the ideas of Fichte, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Oswald Spengler and Henri Bergson.