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Ho Yeol Ahn is the public relations representative of the Tongil Group. +
Damian Anderson is the founder of the website www.unification.net.
He is a graduate from the Unification Theological Seminary. +
Marilyn Angelucci is the Secretary General of Family Federation for World Peace - Middle East.
She is married to Umberto Angelucci. +
Umberto Angelucci has been a UC missionary to Afghanistan.
He is married to Marilyn Angelucci since 1 July 1982. +
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Fumiko Balcomb is the wife of Michael Balcomb. +
Michael Balcomb is the president of the Unification Church of the United States since February 2013. +
Ki Moon Ban is the (eight) Secretary-General of the United Nations. +
James Baughman has been the American UC president from 1988 to 1995. +
Robert Beebe (UTS 1984) is the principal of New Hope School, a K-8 private school in Clifton, NJ. He served 13 years in Russia as vice president of the International Educational Foundation, where he trained thousands of teachers in the use of the Principled-based curriculum, “My World & I.” He received a bachelors in economics from Princeton University, an M.Div. from UTS, and a doctorate in educational leadership from Walden University. He is married to Karen Fallwell (UTS Class 1983). +
Beverly Berndt joined the Unification Church in 1970 and has been actively involved in various church organisations. In 1999 she started UC missionary work in Gambia (West-Africa). +
Antonio Betancourt has taken up numerous leadership positions in organisations that are affiliated with Sun Myung Moon. +
Nikolaus Beutl has been a UC missionary to various nations, including Russia and Georgia. +
Henri Blanchard is the first person that joined the Unification Church in France. +
Philip Burley has been a leader in the Unification Church of the United States. +
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Giuseppe Cali is the national leader of the UC in Italy. +
David Carlson is an academic and since 2004 a professor at the Cheongshim Graduate School of Theology. +
In the 1970s, Sun Myung Moon married Chung Soon Chang to Jesus in the spirit world. +
Annie Choi (Soon Wha Choi) is the secret mother of Sammy Pak. Her mother is Duk Sam Lee and her sister is Soon Shil Choi. +
Seong Mo Choi has been the husband of Duk Sam Lee and the father of Soon Shil Choi and Soon Wha Choi. +
Soon Shil Choi is a daughter of Duk Sam Lee. Her sister is Soon Wha Choi (Annie Choi), who is the mother of Sammy Park. +
Sun Kil Choi was the first wife of Sun Myung Moon. They married on 28 April 1945. On 2 April 1946 their son Sung Jin Moon was born. Moon and Choi divorced on 8 January 1957. +
Won Pok Choi left her husband and children to join the UC in December 1954. Won Pok Choi is the mother of Joon Ho Seuk. +
Yeon Ah Choi is the wife of Hyo Jin Moon. +
Dal Ok Chong is the wife of Won Pil Kim and the (biological?) mother of Dong Sook Kim. +
Dae Wha Chung is an early follower of Sun Myung Moon and the wife of Young Whi Kim. +
Su Won Chung is an early disciple of Sun Myung Moon. He and his wife took part in the UC mass wedding ceremony of 1961, during which Sun Myung Moon married 36 couples. +
Albertine Clarke has been a UC missionary in Russia during the mid-Nineties. She worked as an internal counselor together with Tom Laurita. +
Donna Collins is the daughter of Dennis Orme and Doris Walder. Her parents were leaders in the Unification Church. +
William Connery has been a UC missionary to Uganda. +
Jack Corley has taken up numerous leadership positions in various UC organisations. He has been the national leader of the United Kingdom from 2012-2015. In 2015 he has been assigned as the regional president for the UC in Europe. +
Joshua Cotter has been a leader in various UC organisations.
Most recently he has been the Vice President of Unification Church of America and of Lovin' Life Ministries.
He is married to Young Ae Cotter and father of Shimmy, Hyangmi and Young Kwang Cotter. +
Thomas Cromwell has been a missionary for the Unification Church. +
Worked at Avalon Health centre,UK.
Went to Cranleigh School and studied at San Francisco State University
Heives in London, United Kingdom, and is married to Susan Margaret Crosthwaite. +
Mari Curry is currently the vice president of FFWPU USA. +
Tom Cutts is the national executve director at American Clergy Leadership Conference. +
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Crescentia DeGoede is the director of the National Blessing & Family Ministry at Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. +
Ek Nath Dhakal is a Nepalese politician, belonging to the Nepal Pariwar Dal, and a leader of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. He is head of the Nepal chapter of the Universal Peace Federation. +
John Doroski is one of the early members of the Unification Church of America. He has been a missionary to Kuwait and The Philippines and has taken up numerous other leadership positions in the UC. +
Mose Durst is an author, educator, and the former president of the Unification Church of the United States. He was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City; then an Orthodox Jewish community; to immigrants from Russia. He received a Master's degree and Ph.D while studying English Literature at the University of Oregon. He taught at Laney College in Oakland, California. +
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David Eaton has been a music director and conductor at the New York City orchestra. +
Tim Elder has worked as a freelance translator English-Korean-Japanese. He also worked for the Tongil Foundation in South-Korea. In 2015 he became church administrator at the Newfoundland Sanctuary Church in Pennsylvania, USA. +
Gil Ja Sa Eu is an early disciple of Sun Myung Moon.
She is the wife of the Hyo Won Eu.
Hyo Won Eu and Gil Ja Sa Eu were among the first three couples to be married by Sun Myung Moon in 1960. +
Hyo Min Eu is an early disciple of Sun Myung Moon. +
Hyo Won Eu is an early follower of Sun Myung Moon. +
Eu, Hyo Young +
Shin Hee Eu is an early follower of Sun Myung Moon. +
On 14 July 2015 Bob Exler became the state Sanctuary Church coordinator for Texas. +
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David Fastiggi has reportedly passed on various messages from entities in the spiritual world to groups of UC members. +
Fefferman became a member of the Unification Church in 1968. Fefferman is married, has two daughters and lives in Washington, D.C. +
Gary Fleisher is one of the early members of the Unification Church in America. He is the founder and webmaster of the website www.tparents.org. +
Jim Fleming has been the president of the Unification Church of the United States from November 1964 to March 1967. +
Jim Flynn had been a long-time follower of Sun Myung Moon, then became a follower of Hyun Jin Moon. +
Rainer Fuchs has been the Director of the Blessed Family Department in Europe (2009-2013). He is now working as the Sub-Regional Leader for East Europe and as a European lecturer. +
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Son of John Gehring. He started writing the tumblr-blog called “How Well Do You Know Your Moon” (HWDYKYM). +
Director of Religious Youth Service (RYS). Father of Hye Sung Francis Gehring. +
Bill Gertz is a Senior Editor at Washington Free Beacon and a National Security Columnist at The Washington Times. He is also a graduate from the Unification Theological Seminary. +
Toru Goto is a Japanese Unification Church member who has been confined by faith breakers in an apartment in Tokyo during 12 years and 7 months. During this time he was pressured to give up his faith and leave the Unification Church. +
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William Haines is a UTS graduate and has been a UC missionary to Russia, where he focused on the development of My World and I (мой мир и я), a moral curriculum for secondary school students.
He is regularly teaching UC theology to young people.
William Haines is married to Ruth Haines. +
Born: January 6, 1943 (lunar calendar)<br>
Hak Ja Han is the wife of Sun Myung Moon. They have 14 children. +
Carolyn Handschin is married to Heiner Handschin. +
Heiner Handschin is the national leader of the Unification Church in Switzerland. +
Steven Alan Hassan is an American licensed mental health counselor who has written extensively on the subject of cults. He is the author of three books on the subject of destructive cults, and what he describes as their use of mind control, thought reform, and the psychology of influence in order to recruit and retain members.
Hassan is a former member of the Unification Church. +
Orrin Hatch is an American politician. +
For several years Karl-Christian Hausmann has been part of a trinity national leadership of the UC in Germany, together with Dieter Schmidt and Fritz Piepenburg. +
Tyler Hendricks has been the president of the American Unification Church (1991-2000) and also president of the Unification Theological Seminary (2000-2010). +
Nansook Hong has been married to Hyo Jin Moon. They have 5 children.<br> +
Soon Ae Hong is the mother of Hak Ja Han and the mother-in-law of Sun Myung Moon. +
On 26th of June 2015 Hak Ja Han has appointed Matthew Huish, a 2nd generation church leader of the UK, as the national Leader of the UK after the previous national leader Jack Corley had been appointed as the new continental director of Europe. +
Sun Jo Hwang has been in various leadership positions in the Unification Church of Korea. +
Thomas Hwang +
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Michael Jenkins has been the president of the Unification Church of the United States from May 2000 until March 2009. +
Reiko Jenkins is the wife of Michael Jenkins. +
Seong Do Ji is an early follower of Sun Myung Moon. +
Betsy Jones is married to Farley Jones. +
Farley Jones has been the president of the Unification Church of the United States from December 1969 until December 1972. +
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Kamiyama stood in various leadership positions in the UC. He is mostly known as the one who spent a prison sentence in Danbury prison, together with Sun Myung Moon. +
Hyun Shil Kang is one of the first disciples of Sun Myung Moon. +
The image shows Junsei Terasava and leader of Inter Religious Federation for World Peace Dr. Frank Kaufmann. Jerusalem, 2003. +
Kim, Baek Moon founded the Israel Monastery (Israel Jesus Church) near Seoul in 1945. The Israel Monastery was closely bound to the Jesus Church and the Wilderness Church in Pyongyang. Moon Sun Myung was a follower of Kim Baek Moon from the end of 1945 until mid-1946. According to Unification Church teaching Kim was in the position of John the Baptist in relation to Moon as Jesus. In the 1980's Kim had still a small congregation in Seoul. +
David SC Kim is an early follower of Sun Myung Moon. +
Deuk Jin Kim is an early follower of Sun Myung Moon. +
Dong Sook Kim is the (biological?) daughter of Won Pil Kim and Dal Ok Chong. She is the wife of Sung Jin Moon. +
Kim Il Sung was the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly referred to as North Korea, for 46 years, from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. +
Jin Choon Kim is a professor at the Cheongshim Graduate School of Theology. +
Ki Hoon Kim is the director of the Unification Church of the United States. +
Kyung Gye Kim is the mother of Sun Myung Moon. +
Ho Man Kim is a close assistant of Hak Ja Han. +
Myung Hee Kim had a relationship with Sun Myung Moon, while he was still legally married to Sun Kil Choi. Hee Jin Moon is the son of Sun Myung Moon and Myung Hee Kim. +
Soung Ryong Kim has been the national leader of the Unification Church of Bosnia-Herzegovina. +
Won Pil Kim has been a close disciple of Sun Myung Moon. +
Young Whi Kim is an early follower of Sun Myung Moon. He has been the president of the Unification Church of South Korea. +
Barbara Koch is the sister of Peter Koch and the wife of Reiner Vincenz. +
He joined the UC on January 30, 1962, in San Francisco, USA. On June 11, 1963 he was sent to Germany as the 1st missionary to Europe.<br>
In 1969 he attended a mass wedding ceremony in Essen, Germany with Gertrude Koch among forty-three couples. In 1969 they moved to Austria.<br> +
He is the husband of Jung Eun Yoon and father of Jin Man Kwak. His daughter Jun Sook Kwak is married to Hyun Jin Moon. +
He is the son of Chung Hwan Kwak and Jung Eun Yoon. His sister Jun Sook Kwak is married to Hyun Jin Moon. +
Jun Sook Kwak is a daughter of Chung Hwan Kwak and Jung Eun Yoon. She is married to Hyun Jin Moon. One of her brothers is Jin Man Kwak. +
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Tom Laurita is an American UC member. He spent several years in the Soviet-Union as an underground missionary for the UC. After the fall of the communist regime he worked more openly for the UC, mostly as an internal counselor together with Albertine Clarke.
Tom Laurita was reportedly spiritually open.
Tom Laurita has been married by Sun Myung Moon to Sasha Laurita. +
Chin Tae Lee and his wife have been part of the 36 couples. Chin Tae Lee used to be Director of General Affairs of World Headquarters. He reportedly left the UC. +
Duk Sam Lee is the mother of Soon Shil Choi and Soon Wha Choi (also known as Annie Choi), who is the mother of Sammy Park. +
Yeon Ah Lee is the wife of Hyung Jin Moon, son of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han. +
Yo Han Lee is an early follower of Sun Myung Moon. +
Ben Lorentzen is a musician.
He has been married to Patricia Lorentzen. They have 2 children.
Since 12 October 2013 he has been married to In Jin Moon. They have one child. +
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Julius Malicdem is the president of the Filipino FFWPU. (2016) +
Robin Marsh is the Secretary General of Universal Peace Federation UK. +
Lowell Martin has been the president of the Unification Church of the United States from March 1967 to June 1967. +
Yoshihiko Masuda is a professor at the Cheongshim Graduate School of Theology. +
Wonju McDevitt is the chief secretary for Hak Ja Han. +
Timothy Miller is the former vice-president of FFWPU in Europe (Region 1). +
Hee Jin Moon is the son of Sun Myung Moon and Myung Hee Kim. He was born in Japan on 17th August 1955, while Sun Myung Moon was still legally married to his first wife Sun Kil Choi. +
Heung Jin Moon is the second son of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han. He died in a tragic car accident. Hoon Sook Pak is married to the spirit of Heung Jin Moon. +
Hyo Jin Moon is the eldest son of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han. +
Hyun Jin Moon is a son of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han. He is married to Jun Sook Kwak. +
Hyung Jin Moon is the youngest son of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han. +
In Jin Moon is the former president of the Unification Church of the United States and a daughter of Unification Church founder Reverend Sun Myung Moon and his wife Hak Ja Han. +
In Pyo Moon works at the Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Centre as an International Team Lecturer and Section Chief of the International Team. His responsibility is to give lectures and consultations to international members. +
Jeon Jin Moon is one of the younger daughters of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han. She was born in 1981 in New York. She is a graduate of New York University with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism and economics. +
Kwon Jin Moon is a son of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han. +
Kyeung Yoo Moon is the father of Sun Myung Moon. +
Lan Young Moon has been the international president of Woman's Federation for World Peace.
Lan Young Moon is married to No Hi Pak, the younger brother of Bo Hi Pak. +
Sun Jin Moon is a daughter of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han. She is the wife of In Sup Park.
On Friday, March 13, 2015 Sun Jin Moon was inaugurated as the new Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) International President in the Cheong Jeong Gung building in Korea. +
Sung Jin Moon is the son of Sun Myung Moon and his first wife Sun Kil Choi. +
Un Jin Moon's first marriage to Jin Hun Park was arranged by her parents and resulted in two children. In 1998 she remarried to Rodney Jenkins. +
Ye Jin Moon is a daughter of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han. +
Yong Gwan Moon is the younger brother of Sun Myung Moon. He died when he was eight years old. +
Young Jin Moon is the sixth son of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han. There is controversy about his death, whether it was caused by suicide, an accident or murder. +
He studied Communications/Journalism at The University Of Texas at Austin. +
Bret Moss has set up The Defining Moment, a media project that shows a large number of video interviews with UC members and other religious people. +
Jean-François Moulinet is the national leader of the UC in France. +
Steinar Murud is the national leader of the Unification Church in Norway.
He is married. +
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Elisabetta Nistri is the president of Federazione delle Donne per la Pace nel Mondo Italia (Women's Federation for World Peace Italy)
She studied at the the Università degli Studi di Firenze.
She is from Firenze and lives in Rome, Italy.
She is married to Giuseppe Cali. +
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Yeong Choon Oh is an early disciple of Sun Myung Moon. +
Se Hyun Ok is an early follower of Sun Myung Moon. +
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Bo Hi Pak has been an important translator and assistant of Sun Myung Moon.
He married Ki Sook Yoon on 29th November 29 1953. +
Chong Hwa Pak was a close aid of Sun Myung Moon in the early years of the Korean UC. +
Hoon Sook Pak is a daughter of Bo Hi Pak and Ki Sook Yoon. She is married to the spirit of Heung Jin Moon. +
No Hi Pak is the younger brother of Bo Hi Pak. +
Secret son of Sun Myung Moon and Annie Choi, raised in the family of Bo Hi Pak. +
A messianic figure from Pyongyang, a lady called Grandmother Pak, the founder of the Wilderness Church (branch of the Jesus Church). Around 1945 she began to claim to her followers that she was the wife of Jehovah (Yahweh). She told she had sex with Jehovah and received a new spiritual body through it. Her followers practised pikareun. Kim, Baek Moon was in close contact with her. +
In Sup Park is the husband of Sun Jin Moon. +
Jin Hun Park is the son of Chong Goo Park and Keum Soon Choi.
On 11 April 1986 he married Un Jin Moon, the third daughter of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han. They have 2 daughters together.
Un Jin Moon left the marriage and got married to Rodney Jenkins in 1998.
In 2012 Jin Hun Park got married to Kiwa Hirai from Japan. +
Jin Sung Park is the son of Bo Hi Pak and Ki Sook Yoon.
He is the ex-husband of In Jin Moon. They have 5 children.
Jin Sung Park grew up closely together with Hyo Jin Moon, the eldest son of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han. +
Jin Yong Park, aka Richard Bach, is the in-house lawyer of the Unification Church. +
Fritz Piepenburg has been a UC missionary in Yemen for 21 years. He spoke Arabic fluently and was able to teach in Arabic.
On 17 October 2015 he unexpectedly passed away due to a severe heart attack.
Fritz Piepenburg is married to Hildegard Piepenburg. +
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David Rendel is the Director of Operations of FFWPU USA.
David Rendel is married to Agnes Chizaud. +
James Rigney has been a UC missionary to Nigeria and Russia. He has been the husband of Katherine Rigney, before they divorced. +
Katherine Rigney has been a UC missionary to Nigeria. Later on she became the continental director for Africa. +
Gordon Ross has been the president of the Unification Church of the United States from October 1963 until November 1964. +
American Jew +
Donald Rumsfeld is an American politician and businessman. Rumsfeld served as Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and again as Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. +
Kyeong Seuk Ryu became the president of FFWPU Korea in October 2013. +
Senyu Ryuka is a former, Japanese UC member, who has set herself up as a the center of a new religious movement. She has many followers in Japan, but also in other countries like The Philippines.<br><br> +
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Neil Salonen has been the president of the Unification Church of the United States. +
During the Early Nineties Satoru Sasano has been the director of East Coast CARP, reporting to Joon Ho Seuk. +
Phillip Schanker has been a leader in the Unification Church of the United States. +
Wolfgang Schawaller has been a long-term missionary for the UC in various countries. +
Dieter Schmidt is the current national leader of the UC in Germany.
For several years he was part of a trinity leadership in Germany, together with Fritz Piepenburg and Karl-Christian Hausmann. +
Shahram Sedehi has been very active on various social media to promote the activities of Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church. +
On 21 March 2010 Angelika Selle was appointed by Hak Ja Han, the founder of WFWP, to be the president of Women’s Federation for World Peace USA and Vice-President of WFWP International.
Angelika Selle is married to Bob Selle. They have 4 children. +
Joon Ho Seuk is the son of Won Pok Choi. He is married to Moon Hye Yoon. +
Cynthia Shibuya is the UN representative at Women's Federation for World Peace USA. Previously she worked for Universal Peace Federation International. +
Dong Mo Shin is currently the national leader of the Unification Church in Brazil, South America. +
Frederick Sontag is an American professor of philosophy and author. He was considered an expert on the Unification Church. In the 1970s he interviewed UC founder Sun Myung Moon and UC members in Europe, America and Asia, while researching for the book, ‘Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church’, published in 1977. +
Hee Hun Standard has been a translator of Sun Myung Moon. +
Hiromi Stephens and her husband Jim are the former directors of the Blessed Family Department (USA). Their son Miilhan Stephens is currently the Vice-President of the FFWPU-USA. +
Jim Stephens and his wife Hiromi are the former directors of the Blessed Family Department. Their son Miilhan Stephens is currently the Vice-President of the FFWPU-USA. +
Miilhan Stephens is currently the Vice-President of the FFWPU-USA.
He is the son of Jim Stephens and Hiromi Stephens who are the former directors of the Blessed Family Department (USA). +
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Heather Thalheimer has been a director of the Lovin' Life Ministries. +
Kyle Toffey has been a pastor for the international UC community in Seoul, Korea.
In 2015 he started to support Hyung Jin Moon's Sanctuary Church. +
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Richard Urban is an American UC member.
In 2015 he became the Washington DC leader of Hyung Jin Moon's Sanctuary Church. +
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Reiner Vincenz is one of the early European followers of Sun Myung Moon. +
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Doris Walder is the wife of Dennis Orme and the mother of Young Oon Orme (aka Donna Collins). +
Alexa Ward is currently the vice president of FFWPU USA. +
Robert Williamson has been a long-term UC missionary. +
Andrew Wilson has been one of the editors of the English Cham Bumo Gyeong that was published in August 2015. +
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Chungsik Yong is the continental director of FFWPU Asia. +
The wife of Chung Hwan Kwak and mother of Jin Man Kwak. Her daughter Jun Sook Kwak is married to Hyun Jin Moon. +
Ki Sook Yoon is the wife of Bo Hi Pak and the mother of Hoon Sook Pak. +
Moon Hye Yoon is married to Joon Ho Seuk.
She is the sister of Ki Sook Yoon. +
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Peter Zoehrer is the national leader of the UC in Austria. Since 2005 he has also been the Secretary General at FOREF Europe. +