Sun Myung Moon
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 Sun Myung Moon facts

• A messiah claimant, he was the founder of the Unification Church (members of which called him their True Father, and have themselves sometimes been called "Moonies"), and of its widely noted "Blessing" or mass wedding ceremony, and the author of its unique theology the Divine Principle
• He was an ardent anti-communist and advocate for Korean reunification, for which he was recognized by the governments of both South and North Korea
• His business interests included News World Communications, an international news media corporation known for its American subsidiary The Washington Times, and Tongil Group, a South Korean business group (chaebol), as well as various affiliated organizations
• Moon was born in what is now North Korea
• When he was a child, his family converted to Christianity
• In 1947 he was convicted by the North Korean government of spying for South Korea and given a five-year sentence to the Hŭngnam labor camp
• In 1954, he founded the Unification Church in Seoul, South Korea based on conservative, family-oriented teachings from new interpretations of the Bible
• In 1971, he moved to the United States and became well-known after giving a series of public speeches on his beliefs
• In the 1982 case United States v
• Sun Myung Moon he was found guilty of willfully filing false federal income tax returns and sentenced to 18 months in federal prison