92 Years Old Rev Moon visit Spain

Building A World of Universal Peace 

at a Time of Global Crisis

Madrid, Spain - The more than 700 people who attended the opening program of Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s tour in Europe are unlikely to soon forget the compelling sight of a man giving all he had despite being well into his tenth decade of life. His vitality, his parental love expressed through his caring words, profound insights, joyful stories, sad reflections, thrilling moments, facial expressions—all this drama brought the audience to an intimate closeness. “Spain is a land of passion,” Dr. Sun Myung Moon kept repeating, “and you should use this passion for God’s will."

The program opened with musical offerings from Raul Thais Antequera, a pianist who became blind in the middle of his piano career yet turned disaster into victory by developing a very sensitive way to create music. Raul improvised a tapestry of peaceful music while people were filling the hall. Later on, he played, together with the soprano Monica Luz, an improvised theme for voice and piano bringing heaven closer to us.

Three UPF Ambassadors for Peace offered prayers for peace and blessing: Silvia Cerrada, a young Muslim woman who is very active in different interfaith forums; Abraham Haim, a Jewish historian representing the ancient Sephardic tradition; and Fr. Isidro Hernandez, a Catholic monk of the Trinitarian Order, who has been Media Director of the Spanish Federation of Catholic Orders.

 

Next, three speakers gave congratulatory remarks. Dr. Thomas Walsh, President of UPF International, greeted the audience with some words in Spanish, a gesture appreciated by the audience. Professor Jose M. Laureiro, director of a public school in Madrid, shared his experiences about peace and multicultural education. In his school 90 percent of the students are non-Spaniards, many of them are Muslim and he himself is a Jew. He commented on his impression the first time he heard Father Moon speak some years ago and the good results he has had by including peace education in the curriculum of a school with more than 30 nationalities.

The third speaker was Prof. Xabier Pikaza, one of the most prominent Catholic theologians in the Spanish language, with over 30 books written, many of them used as text books on comparative religions in Spain and Latin America. Pikaza revealed that he has been studying Father Moon and the Divine Principle together with generations of his students for the past 30 years at the Pontifical University of Salamanca. Pikaza explained how Father Moon came to liberate men and women so they can find in their relationship a divine mission, a way to develop their own divinity—a way back to Eden. Pikaza continued saying that Father Moon came to liberate God, whether we believe or not. God has to go back to the state before the fall.

Pikaza’s remarks served as a fitting introduction for Dr. Hyung Jin Moon, the UPF International Chairman, who came to the stage to give a heartfelt introduction to his parents, both from the perspective of a loving son for an exceptional father and also a faithful believer coming to terms with exceptional beliefs. It was all very moving and truly set the tone for an extraordinary speech by the UPF Founder.

Father Moon's intention in his speech went far beyond the proclamation expressed in the printed text “Building a World of Universal Peace at a Time of Global Crisis” and became a much more intimate time of sharing and reflection with what felt like one family in the hall. “I care for all of you as your true Father,” he said.

By the time the program ended at 11:30 in the night, there was a feeling that we had gone through something exceptional and that it would take some time to come to terms with all that had happened. On their way out of the hall, people were given Father Moon’s autobiography, “As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen,” in the new Spanish edition.

Five and half hours is well beyond the standard or accepted length of time for a lecture, sermon, or book presentation. But people didn’t seem to mind that much. All I heard after the event were words of gratitude and joy for having had the chance to meet an extraordinary person filled with God’s grace. 

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Korea Is The Chosen Nation Where The Messiah Has Came

KOREA IS THE CHOSEN NATION

The Korean people are peace loving. In their 4000-year history they have never invaded another country. Yet they have been dominated many times. Like the Israelites, they know the suffering of oppression, and they have many prophecies in their literature that the Messiah will come to them.

Korea‘s history is one of suffering and hardship. They have been molded into a people whose character makes them uniquely qualified to be the chosen people. They are a deeply religious people, a passionate people that accept all major religions; Islam, Confucianism, Buddhism and Christianity flourish there.

Korea has the fastest growing Christian population. It has the largest congregations in the world. Many go to church before daylight. They embrace their religious faith with an intensity that puts followers of those religions from other countries to shame.

God is our parent who has a suffering heart, and God can only be met in deep suffering and pain. The Messiah and the chosen people are the pioneers who must know God‘s suffering heart. They must be a sensitive and emotional people. They must be tough and disciplined, able to endure the harsh standard of sacrifice and purity needed to overcome persecution. The Korean people have these characteristics. The Messiah was born in a small, obscure country in what is today North Korea. This is hardly the place anyone in the major powers of the world (such as America) would expect a savior to come.

Jesus was also born in a small and obscure country. It was hardly the sort of place anyone from the Emperor of Rome down to the very people of Israel would have expected to find a young man who would someday be seen as the savior of the world by hundreds of millions of people.

In his autobiography As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen, Rev Moon writes:

"There is deep meaning in the tragic history that the Korean people have experienced up to this point. Korea has suffered a great deal because it is destined to become the foundation from which world peace will emerge. Because it has endured suffering and difficulty for such a long time, Korea can now become the central nation from which God brings peace to the world. Even though Koreans have experienced countless hardships, we have never made anyone our enemy or hated anyone. Several of our neighbors have caused difficulty for us, but we have never made them our irreconcilable enemies.

The Korean people have developed a culture of heart that enables us to forgive our enemies. It takes mastery over oneself to love and accept an enemy. The ability to love ones enemy comes only after an individual is victorious over his own internal conflicts.

People who are persecuted are the closest to God. To understand God‘s heart, one must experience His tearful heart. Even a person who normally would not shed tears will do so if he loses his family and his country. He would desperately plead with God in tears. Suffering difficulties causes one to have a heart that sheds tears and cries, but it is through this type of heart that one can receive God‘s blessing. God comes to a heart that is soaked with tears. Korea has become a land of heavenly fortune because so many tears have been shed within the hearts of its people.

Korean people honor their ancestors. No matter how hungry we may be, we will never sell the land where our ancestors are buried in order to buy food. Historically we have maintained a way of thinking that respects Heaven. We are a modern, civilized nation that still honors the world of the spirit. When we accepted Buddhism and Confucianism, they gave rise to a beautiful religious culture. More recently Christian and Muslim traditions have begun to thrive here as well. All these religions live without conflict within Korea. They blend together and coexist peacefully. What is it that has made us such a unique people?"

The Symbolical Korean Flag

The Korean flag is symbolic for God. “The flag consists of three parts: The white background, the red and blue circle in the center and four trigrams, one in each corner of the flag.”

“The red and blue circle in the center is called ‘Taeguk’, the origin of all things in the universe. The central thought is perfect harmony and balance: A continuous movement within the sphere of infinity, resulting in one unit. The blue part of ‘Taeguk’ is called ‘Yin’ and represents all negative aspects of the balance that is typical for the symbol. The red part is called ‘Yang’ and describes all positive aspects.”

The dual characteristics of God reflected in the world through the invisible mind and external body and the duality of masculine and feminine (i.e., of God being a parent) is represented by the red and blue colors of the center circle. The upper red paisley represents the yang nature of masculinity; the lower blue paisley represents the yin nature of femininity. Red is on top symbolizing the vertical relationship between man and woman.

Red also symbolizes God‘s love and life. God created our blood red. Satan distorts this color. The communist Soviet Union‘s flag was red. There are 'red light districts' of prostitution symbolizing the Fall.

The blue in the center circle symbolizes God‘s truth. These are the life elements God gives for us to grow spiritually.

“The four trigrams also indicate the duality of opposites and balance. In the upper left trigram, three unbroken lines symbolize Heaven; opposite them in the lower right, three broken lines represent Earth. In the upper right trigram, two broken lines separated by an unbroken line is the symbol of Fire; opposite them is water, symbolized by two unbroken lines separated by a broken line.”

The black trigrams in each corner symbolize the four seasons and cardinal directions of north, south, east and west. The number four is also the symbol for the family unit of the four-position foundation. The circle symbolizes eternity, or God. The flag is white, symbolizing God‘s purity and peace.

 CHOSEN PEOPLE

The book of Revelation speaks of white robes. Because white was for centuries the primary color worn by Koreans, Korea was known as the 'white-clad' people. The name of the capitol is Seoul. Korea‘s ancient name was Chosen.

Koerean people wearing traditional costumes during Independence Movement Day.

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25 Most Significant Reasons: Why Rev Moon is the Messiah

THE 25 MOST SIGNIFICANT REASONS: WHY REV. SUN MYUNG MOON IS THE MESSIAH, SAVIOR & LORD OF THE SECOND ADVENT

1. He was chosen by God.
2. He was called by Jesus Christ.
3. He was born in a providentially prepared lineage.
4. He was born in the Chosen Nation of God.
5. He was born in accordance with God's providential timetable.
6. He solved the most difficult mysteries of the Bible.
7. He successfully subjugated Satan.
8. He completely understands and comforts the heart of God.
9. He reached perfection by achieving mind and body unity.
10. He solved and bestows the grace of liquidating original sin for all humanity.
11. He and his wife achieved the position of the True Parents of humankind for the first time in human history.
12. He and his wife established the first True Family of God.
13. He has dedicated his entire life to the will of God.
14. He provided decisive leadership and made unimaginable sacrifices in winning the crusade against World Communism.
15. He leads the global movement to restore the family as the building block of the society and the Kingdom of Heaven.
16. He is the champion of loving God.
17. He is the champion of loving Jesus Christ.
18. He is the champion of loving humanity.
19. He is the champion of loving his enemy.
20. He is the champion of knowing the direction of human history.
21. He is the champion of interracial, inter-religious and international unity.
22. He is the champion of understanding the reality of the spiritual world.
23. He is the champion of establishing the cosmic foundation for the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth and in Heaven.
24. He is the King of True Love.
25. He is the King of Peace.

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Change Your Life With The Card of Happiness

Jump For Joy When You Use 

The Card Of Happiness

Bathing in the Shower of Negative Information

I assume that for many people daily life is filled with negative factors that might include sickness, obesity, sorrow, fatigue, dullness, aging, pain, abuse, anxiety, fear, stress, anguish, poverty, unemployment, indifference, unpleasantness, boredom, solitude, anger, vengefulness, jealous, failure, and so forth, which distract one from peacefulness and lead in a negative direction. Felonious crimes and serious accidents are immediately reported to the public via newspapers, TV, or the Internet; this type of anxiety-provoking information pours upon you just like a shower, and you have no choice but to bathe in it. But looking toward negative aspects only will set your mind to accept the negative as the reality, and eventually make you question, “How can I lead a happy life?” This gradually eats away at your precious life, damaging your mental and physical health, as well as putting you further away from the origin of your mind. 

Happiness Will Come When You Have Positive Thinking 

A newborn baby is full of energy, and everyone wishes to lead an enriched life like the baby’s. Since almost everyone is born in a healthy condition, we should focus a spotlight on the positive side of the life rather than make our eyes and mind face toward the negative side. A happy and enriched life is not a “dream” for only those who are chosen, but ought to be a “reality” to all of us. When you are in negative state of mind, you tend to look at your own weakness in order to correct your shortcomings in the struggle to be freed from pain and tension; nevertheless, your goal is usually no higher than ground-zero. 

However, in a positive state of mind, when your mind is dominated with such emotions as joy, curiosity, satisfaction, pride, and love, you are able to keep expanding the range of your thoughts and actions. For example, you may be able to come up with an excellent way to resolve the situation when you have some trouble with your neighbors, or you may have an impulse to draw as soon as you look at a beautiful flower. Also you might as well be able to be generous and patient when you are confronted with hardships at work through your curiosity and inquiring mind, which may be empowered by adversity. This can even be a great potential for success. This generous mind is what is called “positive thinking” and also is an “inventory of the heart,” preserving your emotion and action.

Positive Psychology = Card of Happiness

Still some may inquire, “How on earth can we make our life turn around when it is deeply saturated with misery, frustration, and anger?” Positive psychology may be called the “card of happiness” that urges you to take an action, give yourself confidence, and be focused on hope and optimism. When you use this card, what a situation means to you may become totally different from what it was before.

For instance, you can say, “Despite the recession, I have a job, a family, and savings to feed myself and my family. I’m also grateful that I am surrounded by good friends who give me great advice.” Or “I am so grateful that I can deliver my unchanging love and gratitude to my mother, who is fighting diseases, while I closely attend her. I can feel the value and significance of life every time she and I share from the heart and care for each other. I believe that, by the grace of Heaven, her soul will dwell within my heart forever even after she is ascended. I’d like to support those who are dedicated to serving my mother and other patients. I thank God for my good health, and I look forward to my life in the future.” These are great examples of using the “card of happiness” to turn a challenging situation into totally the opposite. 

Refining Your Positive Side

Now how can you manage to stay on the positive side? Being resigned and cynical, you could go into a negative spiral, which affects emotion, thoughts, and action and eventually would lead to depression and anxiety. However, positive thinking and feeling will put you on an upward spiral where joy, interests, satisfaction, pride, and love would complement each other so as to expand your thinking–action range. Also this extends your mental capacity to include creativity, a flexible mind, curiosity, a spirit of inquiry, environmental adaptability, and generosity, which would result in increasing the “inventory” where positive thinking, emotion, and action are preserved within you. 

Thus, the first priority is to focus yourself upon positive thinking so that you can be uplifted by an upward spiral with which your emotion and actions are fostered and refined; then your good deeds, love, and joy will be enhanced. This whole process will immunize you against adversity and equip you with the ability to have a prompt recovery from the various damages you experience. Riding with this “upward spiral” will certainly increase your likelihood to achieve happiness. Growth and enhancement on the positive side will enable you to overcome obstacles in your life and propel you forward to leading the happy life that everyone wants. It is solely your own will that enables you to reach the unlimited potential of happiness, and you can generate happiness just like the way you build up a healthy and tough body. Positive thinking, emotion, and action definitely have unlimited power to turn everyone’s life into the happiest one

Written by Sun Jin Moon, chairman of Seil Travel and daughter of the Reverend Dr. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, founders of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. Sun Jin Moon graduated from Harvard University with a bachelors in Psychology in 2008.

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Caught On Tape: Young Unificationist Shocking Response to Racism (ABC News)

Immanuel Rinkema, a young 19-year-old Unificationist was recently shown on ABC’s television show, “What Would You Do,” this past Friday, March 25 at 9p.m. This primetime news show is famous for setting up elaborate realistic scenarios with actors testing real controversial subjects to see what ordinary people would do when pushed to act, or if they act at all. This week Mr. Rinkema was one of these ordinary people.

Mr. Rinkema speaking with mother about racism on the hidden camera
tv show "What Would You Do?" on ABC.

Young Unificationist in ABC News

The purpose of one scene in the show was to see what customers would do if they saw a caretaker refusing to buy a black doll for a white girl who insisted that she wanted the black doll. Soon, other customers became involved with this explicit act of racism.

Mr. Rinkema was the last customer recorded by hidden cameras while speaking with the customers at the toy store in New York City. He is first introduced on the show as a “remarkable young man, who surprises all of us with his wisdom and maturity.”

While not knowing that he was on camera, Mr. Rinkema was filmed talking about the importance of acknowledging someone for his or her internal self, instead of his or her race and outer appearance. “All I have to say is that we are all God’s children, and the value comes from the inside, not the outside,” Rinkema says to the caretaker.

Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Mr. Rinkema himself is half-Japanese and half-Dutch and has grown up in a church community in which mixed race is common and welcomed. He also tells the customer that, “As a Sunday School teacher, I have a lot of different races in my class. It kind of hurts me to hear you say that about African-American children.”

Immanuel Rinkema speaking with host John Quinones.

Young Hero amaze Host and Actress

He is soon surprised by the host, John Quinones, who appears with cameras and tells Mr. Rinkema that the caretaker and child are actresses who had tested his response to the scene. Mr. Rinkema is then shown crying, as a narrator explains that he had been holding back his emotions for the sake of the child.

Both the show host and actress watch in awe as Mr. Rinkema gives his views: “We create the boundaries between the nations. We create the boundaries between people. We create, ‘Oh, she’s white.’ Everyone is our brother and sister, I feel. We are one big family, and we need to learn to love people like that.”

The clip finishes with Mr. Quinones’ observation: “The wisdom of this young hero shows us just how far we’ve come as a society."

Where did He learn this from?

Mr. Rinkema has shared with familyfed.org that although it was not aired on the show on Friday, after he spoke, the show host said to him "Wow, I'm impressed, a 19-year-old boy with this kind of outlook. Where do you get it from?"

Mr. Rinkema says that he responded:" I grew up in the Unification Church, and I learned this standard of taking care of people from my parents and their love for the True Parents. They teach us how to take care of each other and this standard of love like a real parent would. I had a picture of my parents and True Parents with me, so I showed it to the show host. They (True Parents) gave me the understanding of who I am as God's child, and that is where I get my value from.” 

(Note: Unificationist refer to their founder Rev Moon and Mrs. Moon as 'True Parents'.)

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Rev Moon: Role In Ending Communism

His Strategy: Love the communist people and educate them about how Marxism/Leninism was fatally flawed; offer them a counterproposal based on Godism, and help them achieve their ideal. 

WHY COMMUNISM ENDED

When historians make a final analysis of why communism came to an end, they will recognize that no single person did more than Reverend Sun Myung Moon to bring about the peaceful end of communism. Reverend Moon's works covered a spectrum of major activities in education, culture, conferences, rallies and the media. The programs were worldwide including Korea, Japan, the United States and Latin America. 

From the beginning of his public mission Reverend Moon called communism “one of God’s three great headaches.” Therefore, in the 1950s, in circumstances of  extreme poverty in a war-torn nation, he began tireless, intensive work to personally solve this major headache of God.

Reverend Moon predicted the downfall of communism, publically saying that it could not prosper beyond its 70th year. And indeed, by its 70th year in 1987, it was it was fast disintegrating, although few in the West were aware of that. 

I think every city square in America should have a statue of Sun Myung Moon for his having created The Washington Times. – Ralph Smead (Political Activist. Boise, Idah)

The Washington Times' International Impact

That The Washington Times would be able to play such a pronounced role in the Cold War was intuited by some affected parties from the newspaper's inception. In 1982 neither the Soviet nor the Chinese governments allowed the Times to open news bureaus in their capitals. The American radical left newsletter Overthrow in its June/July 1982 issue called for sabotage of The Washington Times , and the Times was subjected to frontal attacks in pro-communist publications such as Covert Action and CounterSpy. On the other hand, it was reported that Ronald Reagan made it a daily practice to make The Washington Times the first paper that he read every morning. The Washington Times was directly credited with certain of President Reagan's responses to critical issues, including the 1985 forced landing and apprehension of the Palestinian terrorists responsible for the hijacking of the luxury ocean-liner Achille Lauro and for the cold-blooded murder of American businessman Leon Klinghoffer.

The Washington Times influenced reporting practices and news coverage worldwide, even in communist and frontline countries. In 1988 Nobel peace laureate Oscar Sanchez Arias, then president of Costa Rica, a nation with a border on Sandinista-controlled Nicaragua, told the American Society of Newspaper Editors that Costa Rican newspapers depended on The Washington Times for news of their world. He went on to say that the only American newspaper Costa Rican citizens know exists is The Washington Times, and that if Costa Rican newspapers published something from the U.S. it was from the Times. In 1990, future Nicaraguan President Violeta Chamorro Barrios, owner of Nicaraguan independent newspaper La Prensa, the only daily newspaper which dared to defy Nicaragua's Sandinista government, confided to The New York Times' editorial board that the Sandinistas themselves regarded The Washington Times as "the newspaper of the Nicaraguan opposition." Washington Times Editor-in-Chief Arnaud de Borchgrave informed American Leadership Conference attendees in 1988 that by that time, The Washington Times served as the source for more than half of all the news stories broadcasted into the Soviet Union and its satellites via Radio Free Europe and Voice of America.

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Stop Japan Abductions: Help Quake Relief

Human-Rights Activist To Help Quake Relief in Japan

Mr. Luke Higuchi, president of Survivor's Against Forced Exit (SAFE), a group dedicated to stopping religious kidnapping and forced conversion in Japan, is scheduled to spend several weeks in Japan to assist relief efforts and to gather facts about the status of Japanese victims of religious persecution.

A U.S. citizen and a resident of Leonia, New Jersey, Mr. Higuchi will serve as a liaison and translator for nonprofit relief organizations that will send food and medicine to the hardest hit areas on Japan's eastern coast. Mr. Higuchi is also a Unificationist active in the Northern New Jersey branch of the Unification Church.

"I am going back to my native Japan to rebuild the country – but not only with bricks and mortar but with a better human-rights foundation," Mr. Higuchi says, adding: "Although I still have a passion to help victims of religious persecution, the fact is that now is the time to help the whole nation of Japan, regardless of partisan or religious differences. We will help anyone, including those who have gone out of their way to deny the religious freedom of members of new religious movements."

Mr. Higuchi has spent the last year speaking at rallies and on public-affairs TV programs about the problem of kidnapping and false imprisonment suffered by more than 4,300 Japanese citizens who are members of the Unification Church. (Mr. Higuchi's talk at a press conference in Bowie, MD on March 15, 2011 was cancelled in deference to the crisis in Japan.)

Sometimes referred to as "deprogramming," the practice of holding people against their will for days, weeks, or months and until they agree to recant their beliefs was the fate of hundreds of American citizens 35 years ago, but such practices ended after successful prosecutions of the so-called deprogrammers. However, in Japan, the phenomenon continues and has drawn investigations by two working groups within the UN Human Rights Council. Professional faith-breakers in Japan reportedly are paid $50,000 to $100,000 to forcibly de-convert members of minority religions, who sometimes endure physical and psychological abuse for weeks at a time.

Mr. Higuchi has said that he will relay some reports of his fact-finding mission which could be published on the Familyfed.org website while he is in Tokyo.


The Case of Mr. Goto
Toru Goto was born in Yamagata, Japan on November 2, 1963. During his college days in Nihon University, his older brother invited him to learn the Divine Principle which later led him to join the Unification Church. After graduating in 1987 with a degree in architecture, he started working in a construction company. His first kidnapping occured in October of 1987, which he successfully escaped by pretending to surrender his faith after a month of confinement. He was kidnapped again on September 11, 1995, and the confinement continued for 12 years and 5 months until he was released on February 10, 2008. On October 2008, together with other victims and determined people, he founded a civil group called “Association to Eliminate Religious Kidnapping and Forced Conversion”. He presently serves as the vice-representative of the group.

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