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South Korea - Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church, dies at 92

(15 Sep 2012) 0:00:00 +4:3 Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church, dies at 92 857123 AP TELEVISION VARIOUS - FILE (September 2nd 2012) FILE: Gapyeong - 17 February 2010 ++4:3++ 1. Reverend Moon Sun-Myung, founder of the Unification Church, and his wife, Hak Ja Han Moon, blowing birthday candles on cake at event celebrating Moon's 90th birthday 2. Close of Moon blowing candles 3. Close of Moon holding drink FILE: Asan - 10 October 2010 ++16:9++ 4. Wide of couples gathered in square for mass wedding 7. Mid of stage 8. Close of Unification Church emblem on stage, tilt down to Moon and his wife walking on stage 9. Mid of Moon and his wife 10. Reverend Moon Sun-Myung, Leader of the Unification Church, speaking at ceremony 0:34:23 Thousands of faithful at funeral of Unification Church founder 858951 AP TELEVISION Gapyeong - 15 Sep 2012 11. Wide of coffin carrying body of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church, entering stadium at CheongShim Peace World Centre 12. Wide of ceremony 13. Wide of coffin being carried by officials STORYLINE: The Reverend Sun Myung Moon - the self-proclaimed messiah who turned his Unification Church into a worldwide religious movement and befriended North Korean leaders as well as US presidents - has died, church officials in South Korea said on September 3rd 2012. He was 92. Moon died on September 3rd at a church-owned hospital near his home in Gapyeong, northeast of Seoul, two weeks after being hospitalised with pneumonia, a Unification Church spokesman told The Associated Press. Moon's wife and children were at his side, the spokesman said. Moon, born in a town that is now in North Korea, founded his religious movement in Seoul in 1954 after surviving the Korean War. He preached new interpretations of lessons from the Bible. The church gained fame - and notoriety - in the 1970s and 1980s for holding mass weddings of thousands of followers, often from different countries, whom Moon matched up in a bid to build a multicultural religious world. The church was accused of using devious recruitment tactics and duping followers out of money; parents of followers in the United States and elsewhere expressed worries that their children were brainwashed into joining. The church responded by saying that many other new religious movements faced similar accusations in their early stages. In later years, the church adopted a lower profile and focused on building a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a fledgling automaker in North Korea. It acquired a ski resort, a professional soccer team and other businesses in South Korea, and a seafood distribution firm that supplies sushi to Japanese restaurants across the US. The Unification Church claims millions of members worldwide, though church defectors and other critics say the figure is no more than 100-thousand. Moon said he was 16 when Jesus Christ called upon him to complete his unfinished work. While preaching the gospel in North Korea in the years after the country was divided into the communist-backed North and US-allied South, Moon was imprisoned there in the late 1940s for allegedly spying for South Korea - a charge Moon disputed. He quickly drew young followers with his conservative, family-oriented value system and unusual interpretation of the Bible. He conducted his first mass wedding in Seoul in the early 1960s. Kim Jong Il died late last year and was succeeded by his son Kim Jong Un. *** Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...