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‘Messiah’ mourned at elaborate Sun Myung Moon funeral

More than 30,000 mourners, many weeping openly, attended the elaborate, flower-strewn funeral in South Korea of their “messiah” and Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon. In a ceremony on Saturday that had all the trappings of a state funeral, Moon’s carved, red-lacquer coffin was carried by men in military-style uniforms…

Unification Church founder –and Washington Times and UPI owner– Sun Myung Moon in critical condition

The founder of the controversial Unification Church is in a South Korean hospital in critical condition due to complications from pneumonia, his spokesman said on Thursday. Sun Myung Moon, 92, was admitted to Seoul’s St Mary’s Hospital on Tuesday and has been unconscious since then, Ahn Ho-Yeol told AFP, describing…