Hak Ja Han

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Hak Ja Han (right) with her husband Sun Myung Moon


Hak Ja Han (right) with her husband Sun Myung Moon
Hangeul 한학자
Hanja 韓鶴子
Revised
Romanization 		Han Hak-yes
McCune-
Reischauer 		Han Hakcha

Hak Ja Han (born January 6, 1943 ) has been one of the chairmen of the so-called Unification Church since the death of her husband Sun Myung Moon , which is also known as the Moon sect because of its totalitarian character .

Life

Han was married to Moon, 23 years his senior, in April 1960 at the age of 17. The marriage had fourteen children.

The international organizations of the Unification Church were merged in 1994 under the so-called The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification and Han was appointed its president. In 2000, Han was named a True Mother by Moon . This placed her on the same level in the spiritual hierarchy as Moon himself, who let himself be called True Father . With this move, Han assumed a central leadership role in the organization.

The mass weddings for which the Unification Church has been known since the 1960s have been led by Hak Ja Han since Moon's death. She is therefore the new spiritual leader of the Unification Church in the eyes of her followers.

criticism

From 1995 to 2007, Hak Ja Han and her husband were banned from entering the country by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior , the justification being that the unification movement belongs to the youth sects and psycho-groups whose activities could endanger young people.

In November 2006 this ruling was revoked by the Federal Constitutional Court for reasons of religious freedom and referred back to the Higher Administrative Court (OVG) Rhineland-Palatinate . The OVG lifted the entry ban in May 2007 because such entry bans could only constitute significant dangers for public safety and order or for national security.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James R. Lewis, Jesper Aagaard Petersen: Controversial New Religions . Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-19-515682-9 , pp. 44 .
  2. ↑ Why Moon's Movement is also called a sect. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 3, 2012, accessed September 17, 2019 .
  3. ^ Douglas E. Cowan, David G. Bromley: Cults and New Religions: A Brief History . John Wiley & Sons , 2015, ISBN 978-1-4051-6128-2 , pp. 80-92 .
  4. ↑ Moon sect celebrates mass wedding again | NZZ . February 20, 2016, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed on September 17, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Arranged and virgin: In South Korea, the Moon sect celebrated another mass wedding. In: Aargauer Zeitung. August 27, 2018, accessed September 17, 2019 .
  6. ^ South Korea: Mun sect celebrates mass wedding again . In: Spiegel Online . February 17, 2013 ( spiegel.de [accessed September 17, 2019]).
  7. ↑ FOCUS Online: founder of the Mun sect is allowed to enter. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Han, Hak Yes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Han, Hak-ja (alternative romanization); Han, Hakcha (alternative Romanization); 한학자 (Hangeul); 韓鶴子 (Hanja)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean head of the Unification Church
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1943