'Moonies' Founder Sun Myung Moon Dies at 92

	'Moonies' Founder Sun Myung Moon Dies at 92 Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon dies at 92, Self-proclaimed messiah Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who turned his Unification Church into a worldwide religious movement, has died aged 92 due to complications from pneumonia. Moon died Monday at a church-owned hospital near his home in Gapyeong, northeast of Seoul. Two weeks earlier, he had been hospitalized with pneumonia, Unification Church spokesman Ahn Ho-yeul told the Associated Press. Moon's wife and children were at his side, Ahn said. The Unification Church claims millions of members worldwide, though church critics say the figure is no more than 100000. Sun Myung Moon was born in 1920 in a town now located in North Korea. He said he was 16 when Jesus Christ called upon him to complete his unfinished work. Moon founded his religious movement in Seoul in 1954 following the Korean War. His church came to the media spotlight in the 1970s and 1980s as Moon held mass weddings of thousands of followers. The preacher matched them up in a bid to build a multicultural religious world. Accusations were soon voiced that the church was bilking followers out of money, and that its adherents, many young people among them, were brainwashed into joining. The church only said in response that all religious movements faced these kinds of accusations in their early stages. Here's a brief introduction of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church,	From: NEWSofNOW Views: 1 0 ratings
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