Unification Movement founder Sun Myung Moon giving a public speech in the Las Vegas Valley in 2010 Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han, are regarded by the Unificationists as "True Father" and "True Mother", respectively, and as "True Parents" collectively. īy 2018, the term "Unification Movement" was widely used. In other contexts it is still sometimes used and not always considered pejorative. ![]() 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. Unification Movement members have used the word, including Moon himself, the president of the Unification Theological Seminary David Kim, and Bo Hi Pak, Moon's aide and president of Little Angels Children's Folk Ballet of Korea. Moonie is a colloquial term first used in 1974 by some American media outlets. The informal name "Unification Church" ( Korean: 통일교 RR: Tong-il-gyo) was commonly used by members, the public, and the news media. Sun Myung Moon did not originally intend to form a separate or distinct denomination or organization and until 1954 did not give his group of followers an official name, Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (Korean: 세계 기독교 통일 성령 협회 Segye Gidoggyo Tong-il Seonglyeong Hyeobhoe). ![]()
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