Empowering the Heavenly Parent Holy Community
... The Family Federation’s second-generation believers active in the church just want to do something useful for their country and society. Japan should not answer by humiliating, discriminating and persecuting these young women and men.
... I read all the petitions that they had written one by one, Kojima added, and I was almost in tears. These were the truly earnest voices and a glimpse of these believers’ lives. I…
... By justifying abduction and confinement in its legal arguments for the dissolution of the Family Federation, MEXT is not only violating the religious freedom of affected believers but also potentially encouraging the “faith-breaking business”,…
... I have watched my parents strive to improve their mutual love and characters through the teachings of the church. I truly respect them, and believe they have a great personality like no one else.…
... the Second generation are not responsible for incidents of the past. However, because of the tremendous slander by the anti-Unification Church camp and the media, they are now concerned about things that might have…
... what we are facing here is a vast destabilization campaign launched on underage children in violation of their parents’ right to educate their children in accordance with their own faith, based, in the absence…
.... What the newspaper failed to mention is that the religious organization claimed that many of the questions were impossible to answer to. One reason could be that it would give away sensitive personal information…
... A symposium opposing the issue of religious believers being abducted, confined, and forcibly de-converted – primarily affecting members of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (formerly the Unification Church) – was held…
... Kawasaki had been involved in coercively breaking the faith of Family Federation believers for many years. However, Sarutahiko began engaging with her, believing that “rather than confrontation, dialogue and understanding were necessary.
... While she acknowledged that the signature on the document appeared to be in her handwriting, she insisted, “I have no memory of signing it.” Furthermore, she stated that she had “never read the document”…