Unification Church of the United States term "Moonies", a special use of the word "indemnity", and the expressions "True Parents", "heartistic", "doomsday cult", "love bombing", and "crazy for God"—the last coined by Moon himself. Unification Church of the United States The Unification Church of the United States, sometimes colloquially referred to as the "Moonies", is a new religious movement in the United States of America. It began in the 1950s and 1960s when missionaries from Japan and South Korea were sent to the United States by the international Unification Church's founder and leader Sun Myung Moon. It expanded in the 1970s and then became involved in
United States v. Sun Myung Moon mentions that Moon could have avoided the trial if he had remained outside of the United States. Sherwood sums up his views by writing: In 2015 Matsuo Machida, a Unification Church member from Japan, walked across the United States from San Francisco to Washington to protest Moon's conviction and also to promote world peace. United States v. Sun Myung Moon In 1984, Sun Myung Moon, the founder and leader of the Unification Church, was imprisoned in the United States after being found guilty by a jury of willfully filing false Federal income tax returns and conspiracy. Church members and supporters