Moonies Settle Lawsuit With Former Follower
A loss for Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church:
The Unification Church, apparently fearing the wrath of the education ministry, agreed to pay 230 million yen ($2.2 million) to a woman who said she was intimidated into donating huge sums to the group.
The woman, 70, from Chiba Prefecture, had demanded about 260 million yen, claiming the group pushed her to make contributions by saying “the reason her husband died of an illness was because of his fate caused by ancestors’ actions.”
The sum is a record for an out-of-court settlement involving the Unification Church and an individual, according to the National Network of Lawyers Against the Spiritual Sales.
If you’re unfamiliar with the Unification Church, here’s a short introductory video about the Moonies’ rise to power in America:
The website FreedomofMind.com has a list of Moonie front organizations in America, which include the Japanese Heritage Foundation, Japanese Heritage Foundation, and True World Foods, a major supplier of fish to sushi restaurants. The website also has an article about the church’s activities in Japan.
