{"id":247097,"date":"2005-05-28T13:10:14","date_gmt":"2005-05-28T17:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/05\/the-moonies-are-coming"},"modified":"2005-05-28T13:10:14","modified_gmt":"2005-05-28T17:10:14","slug":"the-moonies-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/05\/the-moonies-are-coming","title":{"rendered":"The Moonies Are Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>A Conference to open in New Providence next week is raising some eyebrows as organisations hosting the event are involved with a world renowned cult leader. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU) and the Inter-religious and International Federation for World Peace (IIFWP) will hold a seminar on &#8220;The Ideology of Peace&#8221; for leaders of the Bahamas. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>However, concern has been rising over the FFWPU, IIFWP coming to the Bahamas because of the organisation&#8217;s association with its founder, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, a man known world-wide as the head of a cult often referred to as the &#8220;Moonies&#8221; or the Unification Church. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The Korean religious leader was an engineering student and dock-worker before founding the Unification Church in 1954 with a doctrine based on Christianity as interpreted by Moon, who his followers say is the &#8220;real Messiah.&#8221; <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Moon introduced the movement to the United States in the 1960s. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Officially known as the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification for World Christianity, its world headquarters are now in New York City.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisations to host &#8216;Ideology of Peace&#8217; seminar in Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}