In 1970, President Nixon sent a request to the Korean Foreign Ministry to provide information about the Unification Movement, and two years later he met with leaders of the movement.

In 1998, Unification Movement forgave a $ 90 million loan to the University of Bridgeport and donated an additional $ 15 million.

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.

In Korea, in response to a slanderous newspaper article, more than 700 members of the Unification Movement joined a rally and destroyed the office of the newspaper.

Hyung Jin Moon, now President of Unification Movement and a Harvard alumnus, met with the 14th Dalai Lama.

That same year, representatives of seven religions from South Korea visited Pyongyang, North Korea, for the first time ever, in their joint efforts to unite the Korean Peninsula ; the delegation was headed by members of the Unification Movement.

The Unification Movement affected the demographic map of mono-ethnic Korea due to its Blessing Ceremony.

Consequently, there is a large shortage of marriageable women: more than half of female immigrants are from the Philippines, Thailand and other countries came to Korea due to the Unification Movement and less than 20 % – through marriage agencies.

Unification Movement is the largest supplier of U. S. sushi restaurants, supplying most of the 9, 000 units in the country.

Economic interests of the Unification Movement include the petrochemical industry, construction of golf courses, non-ferrous metallurgy, automobile industry, avia carriers, yacht building, energy drinks, banking, Hollywood, etc.

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.

The members of the Unification Movement generally address or refer to Rev.

During Ramos ' presidency, the National Unification Commission was created, and its chairman Haydee Yorac, together with Ramos, recommended to President Aquino to grant amnesty to the rebel military officers of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement ( RAM ) led by Col. Gregorio " Gringo " Honasan.

She is Moon's designated successor as the leader of the Unification Movement.

Summarizing his 1985 review of studies of a number of new religious movements, such as The Jesus Movement, the Unification Church, the Children of God group in Europe and the Divine Light Mission, James T. Richardson stated that " life in the new religions is often therapeutic instead of harmful ", and suggested that the young people attracted to these movements were affirming their idealism by their involvement.

While he is widely known throughout Africa and much of the developing world for the wide-ranging philanthropic programs that he established, he is at the same time viewed with hostility by many intellectuals for his right wing ideals and ties to Japan's motorboat racing industry and support for the Unification Movement.

1830-1850, when leaders of Croatian National Unification Movement ( the majority of them being Kajkavian native speakers themselves ) adopted the most widespread and developed Croatian Štokavian literary language as the idiom for Croatian standard language.

They led to the creation of a new movement, the Moviment d ’ Unificació Marxista ( Movement of Marxist Unification ), which started to use the red star inside a white triangle, while the PSAN kept the red star inside a yellow triangle.

The unification of the two verions of the flag only could take place when the Movement of Marxist Unification and the Bloc d ’ Esquerra d ’ Alliberament Nacional ( Bloc of the Left for the National Liberation ), or BEAN, both disbanded.

When Plessy was a young boy, his stepfather was a signatory to the 1873 Unification Movement — an effort to establish principles of equality in Louisiana.

* Proposals for the Unification of the International Communist Movement

Partido Comunista de España Unificado ( PCEU, Unified Communist Party of Spain ), Movimiento de Recuperación del PCE ( MRPCE, Movement for the Recuperation of the PCE ), Movimiento para la Recuperación y Unificación del PCE ( MRUPCE, Movement for the Recuperation and Unification of the PCE ), Candidatura Comunista ( CC, Communist Candidature ), and some minor groups unified themselves, thus creating Partido Comunista ( renamed PCPE in 1986 ).

It was led by Smajl Latifi who is now leader of Movement for Integration and Unification ( Lëvizja për Integrim dhe Bashkim LIB ).

On the extremes of Norwegian politices, the right wing was represented by Quisling's Nasjonal Samling or the " National Unification Party " which in 1933 received only 27, 847 votes and the left wing was represented by the Communist Party of Norway, which in 1933 received only 22, 000 votes.

Singer and Lalich, in their 1995 book Cults in Our Midst, called Barker a " procult apologist " for adopting an " apologist stance " towards the Unification Church, and noted that she had received payment from the Church for expenses for a book and eighteen conferences from the Unification Church.

For the 2009 elections it was part of the " Unification for Changes " alliance, but received just 1. 8 % of the national vote and lost all its seats.

In 2001, when Milingo was 71, he received a marriage blessing from Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, despite the prohibition on marriage for ordained priests.

Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou gets the Ambassador for Peace Award from Thomas Walsh, a leader of Unification Church

After the Unification of Germany into the German Empire in 1871, the Polish language was removed from schools in 1872, as part of Otto von Bismarck's Culture War.

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

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.

" In 1990, a position paper sent from the Unification Church to The Fresno Bee said: " We will fight gratuitous use of the ' Moonie ' or ' cult ' pejoratives.

Unification under the British rule as a colony for 96 years brought other racial groups, particularly immigrants from the Indian sub-continent.

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 the 1980s the Unification Church sent thousands of American ministers from other churches on trips to Japan and South Korea to inform them about Unification Church teachings.

Through it, members of the Unification Church believe, the couple is removed from the lineage of sinful humanity and engrafted into God's sinless lineage.

The Unification Church sought to promote private business enterprises that would shift the North Korean economy away from a planned economy to a market economy.

In the following years, a pidgin developed as the delegates from different language backgrounds communicated with each other, and in 1973, a WFD committee (" the Commission of Unification of Signs ") published a standardized vocabulary.

In the film's prologue ( set 19 years after the events of Unification, and as depicted in the graphic novel Star Trek: Countdown ), Ambassador Spock ( Nimoy ) promises the Romulans he will use Vulcan technology to save them from a rogue supernova that threatens to destroy their Empire.

The Peaceful Revolution, a series of protests by East Germans, led to the GDR's first free elections on 18 March 1990, and to the negotiations between the GDR and FRG that culminated in a Unification Treaty, whilst negotiations between the GDR and FRG and the four occupying powers produced the so-called " Two Plus Four Treaty " ( Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany ) granting full sovereignty to a unified German state, whose two parts had previously still been bound by a number of limitations stemming from their post-WWII status as occupied regions.

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.

The Unification Church excludes AIDS victims from marriage blessing ceremonies.

The second is Three Colours: Blue ( 1993 ) in which a theme from his musique funebres is quoted in the Song for the Unification of Europe.

* Barker, Eileen Defection from the Unification Church: Some Statistics and Distinctions, article in the book edited by David G. Bromley Falling from the Faith: The Causes and Consequences of Religious Apostasy.