Unification Church founder Myung Moon dies at 92

Rev Sun Myung Moon,the religious leader who founded the Unification Church and built it into a multibillion-dollar business empire,has died in South Korea at the age of 92,said officials

Rev Sun Myung Moon,the religious leader who founded the Unification Church and built it into a multibillion-dollar business empire,has died in South Korea at the age of 92,said officials.

Church officials said that Rev Moon died at a hospital,the church owns,near his home in Gapyeong after being hospitalised with pneumonia last month.

The patriarch and founder of the controversial Unification Church gained fame in the 1970s and 1980s for pairing up and marrying off thousands of followers at elaborate mass weddings. Critics accused the church of demanding cult-like devotion from its followers. The church also built a business empire that included newspapers,schools,a ski resort and dozens of other ventures in several countries,including a peace institute,carmaker and hotel in North Korea.

In 2009,Moon married 45,000 people in simultaneous ceremonies worldwide in his first large-scale mass wedding in years. Some were newlyweds and others reaffirmed past vows. He married an additional 7,000 couples in South Korea in February 2010.

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