New religious movement
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A new religious movement, also known as a new religion or a modern religion, is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and is peripheral to its society's dominant religious culture. NR
1893 Parliament of the World's Religions
A member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness proselytising on the streets of Moscow, Russia
Practitioners of Falun Gong perform spiritual exercises in Guangzhou, China
A Rasta man wearing symbols of his religious identity in Barbados
Unification Church
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The Unification Church, officially the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, is an Abrahamic monotheistic new religious movement, whose members are called Unificationists or sometimes inf
New religious movement
…religion. In 1954, Scientology was founded in the United States by L. Ron Hubbard. It can be considered a psychotherapy-oriented religion. In 1954 the Unification Church by Sun Myung Moon was founded, in South Korea. In 1955, the Aetherius Society was founded in England. It and some other NRMs have been called UFO…
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Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han, founders of the Unification Church
The first Blessing ceremony outside of Korea was a mass wedding in Madison Square Garden, New York City, on July 1, 1982.
Unification Church leader Hak Ja Han was arrested in South Korea in September 2025