Unification Movement

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The Unification Movement is a religious movement headed by the Unification Church (renamed the Family Federation for World Peace) comprising organizations and individuals that are dedicated to creating world peace through ideal families centered on God in accordance with the doctrines of Sun Myung Moon.

For legal and tax purposes in several countries, various projects inspired or directed by Sun Myung Moon or members of his church are required to maintain existence as separate entities. Under United States federal tax law, 501(c)(3) charitable institutions, like churches, may not engage in certain types of political speech without losing their tax exemption status. As such, Rev Moon, the Unification Church, and members of the church have created organisations such as CARP which operate under the less stringent requirements of a 501(c)(4) "non-profit, educational foundation".

[edit] See also

• Unification Church
• Sun Myung Moon

[edit] External links

• An introduction to Unificationism (Sun Myung Moon's Unification Movement) including both support and criticism from current and former Unificationists.
• Unofficial Unification Movement discussion group and mail list
• Rev. Sun Myung Moon
• Sun Myung Moon and/or the Unification Movement
• Bayou La Batre residents embrace church they once called a cult, by Ben Raines ("Alabama Live," July 30, 2000)