Gachapin

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[Demian Dunkley @DemianDunkley]

OFFICIAL MESSAGE TO MEMBERS OF FFWPU:

Dear Family,

Yesterday the Tokyo High Court upheld a decision by the Japanese government to dissolve the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification as a religious corporation in Japan.

Through this ruling, the religious corporation immediately loses its legal status under Japan’s Religious Corporations Act. Compulsory liquidation of its assets may now proceed even while a possible appeal to Japan’s Supreme Court remains under consideration.

This represents a grave challenge to religious freedom. For the first time in modern Japan, a major religious organization has effectively been erased as a legal entity without any criminal conviction against the organization itself.

This is not a routine administrative action. It is the most severe sanction available under Japanese law, removing the institutional existence of a faith community. In rule-of-law democracies, such an action normally requires the highest possible threshold of evidence and justification.

However, many legal scholars, human rights advocates, and international observers have already raised serious concerns that this threshold has not been met and that the grounds for dissolution remain deeply contested.

When a government can dissolve one faith community without criminal conviction, the religious freedom of every faith community is put at risk.

The freedom to believe, worship, and gather in faith is not a privilege granted by governments. It is a fundamental human right. When that freedom weakens for one community, its protection weakens for all.

The consequences for our brothers and sisters in Japan began unfolding immediately.

The court’s decision took immediate effect. Rev. Masaichi Hori, who had been serving as the representative director of the Family Federation, was immediately removed from that position. Authority over the corporation was transferred to a court-appointed liquidator, Mr. Hisashi Ito, who now bears responsibility for administering the liquidation process.

At 11:00 a.m., when the Tokyo High Court’s decision was announced, the transition began almost instantly. Within minutes, the liquidator notified legal representatives that teams would begin visiting churches across the country that same day to initiate liquidation procedures.

About an hour later, teams of lawyers accompanied by police began arriving at churches nationwide. Their purpose was to explain the liquidation procedures, seize corporate assets, and confiscate church keys.

At the headquarters church in Shibuya, approximately twenty liquidators arrived and ordered the building closed. Employees were informed that they would no longer be allowed to enter the church and were instructed to remain at home until further notice.

Within hours, representatives had been dispatched across the country and access to church facilities had effectively been shut down.

Despite previous assurances that religious freedom would remain protected even after the dissolution of the corporation, members quickly found themselves in a situation where they could no longer gather in their places of worship.

These actions are already dismantling the daily worship, pastoral care, and community life of thousands of ordinary families across Japan.

Beloved members, this is not a distant scenario. It is happening right now. Our hearts are naturally pulled toward our Japanese family.

For decades, the Japanese movement has carried an extraordinary responsibility in serving True Parents, Korea, and the worldwide family of faith. Their devotion, sacrifice, discipline, and quiet dignity have shaped the history of our global community.

Few communities in modern religious history have invested themselves more faithfully for the sake of others than the members of the Japanese church.
Their offering deserves deep respect and sincere gratitude from all of us.

As the representative of the elder son nation, this moment also invites reflection. Looking back, one cannot help but wish that we could have carried more of that sacrificial burden earlier so that our mother nation might have had more space to care for its own members internally. The providence placed immense weight on Japan’s shoulders, and their offering has been truly historic. For that offering, the worldwide family will always remain deeply grateful.

No matter what happens next, they have already achieved a monumental victory that will be anchored throughout human history as among the most respected ancestors of the future world of peace.

Yet what stands out most today is not just the incredible offering they have made to Heaven, but the spirit with which they continue to stand.

Japanese members remain among the most faithful, resilient, and organized in our worldwide movement. Even under years of intense public scrutiny and social pressure, their families remain strong, their faith steady, and their communities deeply united.

I believe with confidence that our Japanese brothers and sisters will continue to find ways to gather, support one another, and preserve the life of faith through their families, their Blessing, and their devotion to God. We should be the same.

Moments like this test what we truly believe about freedom and faith. They also test our resolve to defend those values by the way we live them.

History has a way of revealing whether the values we cherish are defended only when convenient, or upheld even when difficult.

This moment therefore calls for prayer, wisdom, and moral clarity from believers everywhere.

As American members, we should speak with clarity about what is taking place. But even more importantly, we must remember who we are.

Through continued prayer and relationships built across society, we are continuing to work at the highest levels with partners, legal experts, and advocates to protect the rights and well-being of our Japanese members.
Justice is not only a matter of law. It is also a matter of conscience.

As children of our Heavenly Parent and True Parents, even in the face of painful news from Japan and while our True Mother continues to endure unjust detention in Korea, this is not a time for discouragement. It is a time for courage and unity.

True Mother’s course has never been an easy path. Throughout her life she has faced misunderstanding, opposition, and hardship from all directions. Yet she has never wavered in her determination to fulfill Heaven’s providence and realize the dream of one human family under God.

For us, the path forward is clear.

Our strength comes from God, our Heavenly Parent, from Jesus, and from our victorious True Parents. While True Mother remains with us on this earth, our unity with her is more than emotional support. It is a providential force. The deeper our unity becomes, the stronger our ability becomes to protect God’s sovereignty and advance Heaven’s providence in this time.

Our movement was founded on the truth that peace begins in the heart, grows in the family, and expands outward into society. This remains our mission. We must continue to expand the Blessing and confidently share who we are and who True Mother is.

Let us pray for our brothers and sisters in Japan, for their leaders and communities, for the legal advocates working on their behalf, and for the people and leaders of Japan that they may recognize the seriousness of this moment.

Finally, let us remember the essential.

Governments may dissolve corporations.
Buildings may be taken.
Institutions may be dismantled.

But faith cannot be dissolved.
Devotion cannot be confiscated.
And the living bond between God and God’s children cannot be erased.

We are far more than an organization. We are families bound together by the Blessing of True Parents and by the dream of one human family under God.

Let us stand with dignity, unity, and love so that the world may clearly see the living fruit of True Parents through our lives.

Rev. Demian Dunkley
Continental Director, FFWPU North America

#FaithFreedomPeace #GodsDreamOneFamily #FreedomOfReligion

[Gachapin @Gachapincnw]

@kind___maker @sayu_nt 本当にその通りですね。エイトさんが言うように家庭連合がそんなに危険な団体ならとっくのとうに安倍さんのように消されてるはずです。
そ��そも山上は教会員ではなくてエイトさんと同じ反統一教会ですからね。
危険なのは反対統一教会の人たちなのに、マスコミがうまくすり替えましたね。

[Demian Dunkley @DemianDunkley]

Religious Freedom is not for one religion, but for all. And when one or two are suppressed, more will follow.

#ReligiousFreedom #ReleaseTheMotherOfPeace #FreePastorSon

[ラッキー7 @lucky_75757]

日本で行われている政府による #旧統一教会 への宗教弾圧について聞かれた元米国国務長官マイク・ポンペオ氏は、旧統一教会への解散請求は間違いであり、有害であり、妥当な方法ではない。旧統一教会への解散請求は不適切であり、見直されるべきだと述べました↓

[Demian Dunkley @DemianDunkley]

MBC INTERVIEW - FULL VIDEO: I was interviewed by Kyle Kim (a producer for MBC pdnote)

#GodsDreamOneFamily #ReleaseTheMotherOfPeace

[Gachapin @Gachapincnw]

@Hiro1231167 お幸せそうで何よりです。
ほんとどこかの宗教に入っていると言うと、特に日本では変な目で見られそうですよね。
別に私たちも普通の人間なのにね。

[Gachapin @Gachapincnw]

@tatsuhiro_iwamo 家庭連合の会員ですが、批判するどころか岩本牧師のおっしゃっていることは至極当然だと思いますよ。ラスベガスでカジノをしたのには原理的な意味があるとのことです。確かラスベガスは地上で最も堕落した場所だからそこを救う為だったとか？わたしも詳しいことはわからないので誰か教えて下さい。

[Demian Dunkley @DemianDunkley]

FIND YOUR CONVICTION: If you feel like we’ve been too silent, watch this video.

They are making a martyr out of her. We cannot sit still.

We cannot wait or wonder what to do.
This is the moment to speak with faith, not fear.
Find your conviction, and let it speak.

#FaithFreedomPeace #ReleaseTheMotherOfPeace #ReligiousFreedom #Conviction #PeaceStartsWithMe #WhatWouldFatherDo
@WashTimes @GordonGChang @FreedomHouse @USCIRF @robmccoy @glennbeck @StateDept

[Demian Dunkley @DemianDunkley]

Every democracy claims to defend freedom.

But only one was founded on the idea that rights come from God, not government.

Lose that truth, and freedom becomes an illusion.

Stand with freedom, faith, and be the conscience of the nation.
#FaithFreedomPeace #ReligiousFreedom #WhatWouldFatherDo #FreeKorea #ReleaseTheMotherOfPeace
@robmccoy @charliekirk11 @glennbeck @Pontifex @GordonGChang @MorseHTan @USCIRF @FreedomHouse @StateDept @POTUS

[Demian Dunkley @DemianDunkley]

In a cell no larger than a Mini Cooper, the Mother of Peace prays for humanity.

No bed. No sunlight.
She crawls in pain, praying for humanity.

This is not justice — it’s persecution.
Watch the truth the world needs to see.

#ReleaseTheMotherOfPeace #FreeKorea #ReligiousFreedom #FaithFreedomPeace #WhatWouldFatherDo

[furuharu @gokZJDlf2u80410]

山上徹也の妹の驚くべき証言！!
週刊ルネサンスレポートで
窪田順生氏語る！

安倍さんを暗殺した山上徹也の妹❨彼女は旧統一教会の信者ではない❩が「私達の家庭は教団に壊された���けじゃない！」とはっきりと証言。
家庭崩壊は教団のせいとする報���のマスコミ、全国弁連のウソ。

[ジョージ・グラス駐日米国大使 @USAmbJapan]

Congratulations to @takaichi_sanae on making history today as Japan’s first female prime minister. Under the strong and decisive leadership of @POTUS and Prime Minister @takaichi_sanae, the 🇺🇸🇯🇵 partnership will reach new heights of cooperation in everything from security and technology to energy and trade. This is an alliance going places!