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What Japan's dissolution of the church is, and what it is not

The Unification Church calls Japan's dissolution of its Japanese branch religious persecution. The court record describes something narrower: a response to documented conduct, the coerced donations and spiritual sales that harmed thousands of families, not to anyone's belief. A look at where the principled line actually falls, and why the persecution framing asks members to set aside the very value their faith teaches.

By the Principled Thinking Editors·published 16 June 2026
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Money & Wealth · 10 min New

What Japan's dissolution of the church is, and what it is not

The Unification Church calls Japan's dissolution of its Japanese branch religious persecution. The court record describes something narrower: a response to documented conduct, the coerced donations and spiritual sales that harmed thousands of families, not to anyone's belief. A look at where the principled line actually falls, and why the persecution framing asks members to set aside the very value their faith teaches.

Money & Wealth · 6 min Revised

The Unification Church is selling its historic Washington chapel

The church is selling the landmark Washington Chapel in Adams Morgan to a condo developer and evicting the congregation members who had been living inside, two of whom fought the case in court without a lawyer. A look at the record, the fight to stop the sale, and the building's stranger history.

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