Sun Myung Moon

Sun Myung Moon, and Sun Myung Moon, ( born February 25, 1920 in Sangsa -ri, Province Heian hokudō, Chosen, Empire of Japan, † 3 September 2012 in Songsan -ri, South Korea) was the founder and leader of the so-called Unification Church.

Life

Sun Myung Moon was born in what is now North Korea at a time when it belonged as part Chōsens to the Japanese Empire ( 1910 to 1945 /48). His birth name was Yong Myung Moon. With 15 years of coming from a Presbyterian family Moon on Easter Sunday (21 April 1935) had a vision of Christ according to their own information. In this vision, Jesus asked him to continue his mission.

When Moon was 9 years old, his father sent him to a village school, in the Confucian writings and Chinese characters were taught. At age 13, Moon passed the entrance test for a normal school and switched to the Osan School. In this school, there was a Korean nationalist school in which the instruction was not held in Japanese, but in Korean. Therefore, Moon moved again to school and attended from 1934 Jeongju Public Normal School, where lessons were held in Japanese, the former national language. According to the company Moon held at the closing ceremony, a speech in which he criticized the Japanese colonial rule, and was observed from then on by the police.

1938 Moon moved by Keijo and visited at the Keijo Imperial University, the Institute of Trade and Industry. From 1941 to 1943 Moon studied at a business college Waseda University in Tokyo Electrical Engineering. Moon graduated in September 1943 and returned to Chosen.

While Moon was living on the Japanese main islands, he supported the Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai, founded and participated in underground movement who fought for the independence of Korea by the Japanese Empire.

In October 1944, Moon was arrested by the police and held until February 1945 at the police headquarters of the province Keikidō. He was accused of being a member of the Communist Party, because he had worked in the underground movement with Communists.

After the independence of Korea in August 1945, the peninsula north of the 38th parallel by the Soviet Union and south of the 38th parallel was occupied by the United States. As Moon wanted to pay in the Soviet-occupied part of Korea with South Korean money in October 1945 during a visit to his home, he was there again arrested and jailed for a week.

1946 Moon left his family and went to Pyöngjang to proselytize there. There he was arrested in 1948 for " breaking into the social order " and sentenced to five years' imprisonment in a labor camp in Hungnam. In an evacuation of Hungnam by UN troops on October 14, 1950 Moon managed to escape.

Moon fled with two trailers in the port city of Busan in the south of the Korean peninsula, where they arrived on 28 January 1951. He lived in a mud hut and wrote there his doctrine in a manuscript entitled The original principle ( Wol Li Bon Won ) down. He instructed one of his followers, Eu Hyo -won, systematic manner the content of the manuscript into a book. In 1957 the book was published " Declaration on the Divine Principle " ( Wol Li Hae Sol ). In 1966, Moon released a revised version entitled Explanation of the Divine Principle. This book is still regarded as the basis of doctrine Moons.

Family

Sun Myung Moon married on May 4, 1944 Choi Sun -gil. In 1955 his second son, Hee -jin was born. Hee -jin later died in a train accident. 1959 could be Choi Sun -gil of Sun Myung Moon divorce, and the first son Sung -jin grew up with their mother. On April 1, 1960 Sun Myung Moon married his second wife, Hak Ja Han, with whom he had 14 children:

• Ye Jin ( daughter, born December 11, 1960)
• Hyo Jin ( son, born December 3, 1961 † 17 March 2008)
• Hye Jin ( daughter, born July 27, 1964; † August 4, 1964 )
• In Jin ( daughter, born July 18, 1965)
• Heung Jin ( son, born October 23, 1966; † 3 January 1984)
• Un Jin ( daughter, born November 23, 1967)
• Hyun Jin " Preston " ( son, born 10 April 1969)
• Kook Jin " Justin" ( son, born June 14, 1970)
• Jin Kwon ( son, born 20 January 1975)
• Sun Jin ( daughter, born June 15, 1976)
• Young Jin ( son, born May 17, 1978, † 27 October 1999)
• Hyung Jin Moon ( son, born August 6, 1979 in Tarrytown, New York), since April 2008 chairman of the Unification Church International
• Yeon Jin ( daughter, born January 3, 1981)
• Jeong Jin ( daughter, born June 14, 1982)

Union movement and teaching

Moon founded on May 1, 1954, the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity in Seoul. Later he called them in the Unification Church, or union movement has to offer. In public, it is often referred to as Moonies.

Since 1963 there is the union movement in Germany. According to information 800 families commit to the Unification Church in Germany.

Members of the Unification Movement believe that Moon is the Messiah and has the task to carry on his mission received from Jesus. Previously Moon was called by his followers Champion ( translation of the Korean word sŏnsaengnim - teacher). Today he is known as True Father or Father Moon.

The doctrine of the Unification movement results from the book The Divine Principle and the speeches Moons that are published in numerous books. Basic elements are the Taoist cosmology, shamanistic folk religion from Korea, and the principle of Christian mission theology. According to the divine principle that God created people to help them achieve perfection. The first human couple, Adam and Eve had a perfect family should set up as an object partner of God on this basis. However, by the fall they violated this principle.

Mission of Jesus as the Messiah it was to make up for the fall by he started a family and recorded the whole humanity in this family. Because of the crucifixion of Jesus would have but this can not meet.

Economic investments

In 1963, Sun Myung Moon, a production company from which evolved the Tongil Group. It is a non-profit organization whose revenues are used for activities of the Unification Church.

The Moon Group has investments in the North Korean Pyeonghwa Motors, the global ginseng trade and controls a South Korean weapons and machine tool manufacturers.

Outside of the home base, the union movement, especially in the United States is economically strong. It controls where dozens of companies, including the conservative -oriented capital - Washington Times newspaper and has the press UPI. However, the religion founder himself was in the United States in trouble. He was sentenced in 1982 for tax evasion to a prison term of 18 months. Overall, Moon was about half a dozen times in prison. In Latin America, the Unification Church expanded its strongest base in Uruguay. You have there the newspaper " Ultimas Noticias ", a printing company, the third largest bank in the country and the hotel " Victoria Plaza" in the center of Montevideo.

According to an article in the Chicago Tribune of 11 April 2006 controlled Moons company True World Group, the capture and trade in fish for sushi in the U.S..

Meeting with Heads of State and Government

Moon, who called the Americans, President Richard Nixon to forgive the Watergate scandal, was received in 1974 by this in the White House. In April 1990, Moon met Mikhail Gorbachev, the President of the Soviet Union. Moon praised the political and economic changes in the Soviet Union. In 1991 he met the North Korean President Kim Il-sung to an interview in Hamhung. They spoke among other things about the reuniting divided families in North and South Korea, the economic cooperation between the two countries and the North Korean nuclear program. After the death of Kim Il-sung in 1994 and the death of his son Kim Jong- il in 2011, Moon sent each a delegation to North Korea to express his condolences. 1995 Moon met the Argentine President Carlos Menem. In July 2011, the Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan Moon and his wife received as state guests.

Peace Cup

Sun Myung Moon was in 2002, the introduction of a global football tournament organized by him known. The so-called Peace Cup is to contribute to international understanding and overcoming ideologies. The competition was under the auspices Moons. As the owner of two football clubs he could win the FIFA and the world famous soccer player Pele for his project. The total profits that can be achieved with the marketing of the competition will be, which claims to be donated to starving children in Asia and Africa.

Entry ban

From 1995 to 2007, there was a travel ban by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior for Sun Myung Moon and his wife, which was justified by the fact that the union movement is among the youth sects and psycho-groups, whose activities could endanger young people. In November 2006, this ruling was overturned by the Federal Constitutional Court on the grounds of freedom of religion and to the Higher Administrative Court (OVG ) Rhineland -Palatinate remanded. The Higher Administrative Court overturned the ban in May 2007, because only significant threats to public safety and order or national security could justify such travel bans.

In Japan, was used until the end of life Moons a travel ban.

Death

3 September 2012 shortly ago 2 clock in the morning local time Moon died at the age of 92 years in South Korea as the result of pneumonia. At the funeral on 14 September in Gapyeong about 35,000 people attended. Hyung Jin Moon, Chairman of the Yeosu World Expo Organizing Committee Dong Seok Gang, Tarsem Kim and Alfred Moisiu held the funeral speeches.