Blessing ceremony of the Unification Church President Park Chung-hee. She said: "I join in a trans-religious spirit. I like the Unification Church way of interpreting the Bible, incorporating the Quran and Buddhist scripts". In 2013, four months after the death of Sun Myung Moon, the church held a Blessing ceremony for 3,500 couples in South Korea, while another 24,000 followers took part in other countries via video link. This ceremony was presided over by Hak Ja Han. Moon's practice of matching couples was very unusual in both Christian tradition and in modern Western culture and attracted much attention and controversy. Members of some churches have expressed
Nansook Hong Nansook Hong Nansook Hong (born 1966), is the author of the autobiography, "In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family", published in 1998 by Little, Brown and Company. It gave her account of her life up to that time, including her marriage to Hyo Jin Moon, the first son of Unification Church founder and leader Sun Myung Moon and his wife Hakja Han Moon. "In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family" is a 1998, non-fiction work by Hong and "Boston Globe" reporter Eileen McNamara, published