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    • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
      Leo Lewis
      Japan’s reckoning with religious threats, real and imagined

      Abe’s murder has led to a crackdown on the Unification Church — and on parents frightening children with hellfire

    • Monday, 17 October, 2022
      Japanese politics & policy
      Kishida orders probe of Moonies after outcry over Japan political ties

      Former leader Shinzo Abe’s assassination highlighted connections with Unification Church

    • Sunday, 25 September, 2022
      News in-depthJapanese politics & policy
      Kishida's popularity hit by decision to hold state funeral for Abe

      Japanese public rail against $11mn cost of prime minister’s undebated announcement of event to mourn former leader

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      The Big Read
      How Abe’s killing exposes Japan’s thin line between church and state

      The ruling LDP party’s links to the Unification Church, or ‘Moonies’, are in the spotlight after the alleged assassin cited the connection as a motive

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
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      Church or cult? Inside the Moonies’ ‘world of delusion’

      Shinzo Abe’s assassination has drawn scrutiny of the work of the controversial Unification Church

    • Monday, 11 July, 2022
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      Killing of Shinzo Abe shines spotlight on politicians’ links with Moonies

      South Korea’s Unification Church says it is baffled by reports suspect was motivated by anger at the group

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    • Wednesday, 19 January, 2011
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      Unification Church attacks Seoul skyscraper plan

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