Unification Church Unification Church of the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_Church_of_the_United_States https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7884888 A religious cult which began in the 1950s and 1960s when missionaries from Japan and South Korea were sent to the United States by the international Unification movement's founder and leader Sun Myung Moon. It expanded in the 1970s and then became involved in controversy due to its theology, its political activism, and the lifestyle of its members. Since then it has been involved in many areas of American society and has established businesses, news media, projects in education and the arts as well as taking part in political and social activism, and has itself gone through substantial changes.