Articles Of Incorporation Of Unification Church International

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as of the date hereinafter mentioned.

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.( t l ( . ’ . .. , .. PETEB S. RIDLEY,

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ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

OF UNIFICATION CHURCH INTERNATIONAL

We, the undersigned natural persons of the age of

twenty one years or more, acting as incorporators of a not for

profit corporation under Title 29, Chapter 10 of the Code of Laws

of the District of Columbia, adopt the following Articles of

Incorporation for such corporation:

FIRST: The name of the corporation (which is here-

inafter referred to as the “Corporation”) is:

UNIFICATION CHURCH INTERNATIONAL

SECOND: The period of the duration of the Corporation

shall be perpetual.

THIRD: A. Purposes. The purposes for which the

Corporation is organized are as follows:

(1) To operate exclusively for religious, charit-

able, educational, literary and scientific purposes within the

meaning of Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of

1954. amended in 1980

(2) To serve as an international organization

assisting, advising, coordinating, and guiding the activities of

Unification Churches organized and operated throughout the world.

(3) To promote the worship of God, and to study,

understand and teach the Divine Principle, the n,w--~e … el””tiotl of FrS! --”’111 FILm __--_ -’” .. _- … _---. I

God, and, through the practical application of the Divine Prin-

ciple, to achieve the interdenominational, interreligious, and

international unification of world Christianity and all other

(4) To establish, support and maintain, anywhere

in the world, such place or places for the worship of God and for

the study, understanding and teaching of the Divine Principle as

may be necessary or desirable, to further the theology of the

Unification Church.

(5) To publish and disseminate throughout the amended in 1980 world, newspapers, books, tracts and other publications in order

to carry forward the dissemination and understanding of the

Divine Principle, the unification of world Christianity and all other religions, or otherwise to further the purposes of the

corporation.

(6) To sponsor and conduct cultural, educational,

religious, and evangelical programs for the purpose of furthering

the understanding of the Divine principle, the unification of

world Christianity and other religions, world peace, harmony of

all mankind, interfaith understanding between all races, colors

and creeds throughout the world, and for such other purposes

consistent with the Divine Principle and the purposes of the

Corporation.

(7) To organize, build, own, rent, lease, main-

tain and otherwise operate churches, schools, hospitals, mis-

sions, cultural institutions, homes for the aged and infirm, rest

homes, orphanages and other benevolent enterprises conforming to

the laws of the country and locality in which they shall be

situated or conducted. This Corporation may acquire by purchase,

gift, bequest or otherwise, and may hold, control, and cause to

be conveyed such property, real and personal, as may be necessary

and useful to carry out any or all of its purposes and powers.

(8) In general, to take any action consistent

with its nonprofit status and not contrary to the District of

Columbia Nonprofit Corporation Act; to have and exercise all of

the powers conferred by said Act upon corporations formed there-

under; to do any and all of tile acts and things herein set forth, amended in 1980 to the same extent as natural persons could do. B. Prohibitions. In the event the Corporation

qualifies for exemption as a corporation described in Section

501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended (here-

after sometimes referred to as the “Code”):

(1) This Corporation shall not possess or

exercise any power or authority either expressly, by interpre-

tation, or by operation of law that will or might prevent it at

any time from continuing to so qualify, nor shall it engage

directly or indirectly in any activity which might cause the loss

of such qualification.

(2) No part of the assets or net earnings of

this Corporation shall ever be used, nor shall this Corporation

ever be organized or operated, for purposes that are not exclu-

sively religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational

within the meaning of Section 501(c) (3) of the Code.

(3) This Corporation shall never be operated

for the primary purpose of carrying on a trade or business for

(4) No substantial part of the activities of

this Corporation shall consist of carrying on propaganda or

otherwise attempting to influence legislation; nor shall it

participate or intervene in any manner, or to any extent, in any

political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office,

whether by publishing or distributing statements, or otherwise.

(5) At no time shall this Corporation engage amended in 1980 in any activities which are unlawful under the laws of the United

States of America, the District of Columbia or any other juris-

diction where its activities are carried on. (6) No solicitation of contributions to this

corporation shall be made, and no gift, bequest or devise to this

Corporation shall be accepted, upon any condition or limitation

which, in the opinion of the Corporation, may cause the Corpora-

tion to lose its exemption from payment of Federal income taxes.

(7) No part of the assets or net earnings,

current or accumulated, of the Corporation shall inure to the

benefit of or be distributable as dividends or otherwise to

directors, officers, employees or other private persons, except

that the Corporation shall be authorized and” empowered to pay

reasonable compensation for services actually rendered and to

make payment and distributions in furtherance of the purposes and

objectives as set forth in this Paragraph THIRD above.

(8) No director, officer or employee of or

member of a committee of or person connected with the Corpora-

tion, or any other private individual shall be entitled to share

in the distribution of the corporate assets upon the dissolution

of the Corporation. Upon such dissolution or winding up of the

affairs of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, the

assets of the Corporation then remaining in the hands of the

board of directors shall, after paying or making provisions for

payment of all of the liabilities of the Corporation, be dis-

tributed, transferred, conveyed, delivered, and paid over only to amended in 1980 educational, scientific, religious, literary and charitable

organizations that have been held to be exempt from Federal

income tax as are described in Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal

Revenue Code and which -are not private foundations within the

meaning of section 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, except

that no such distributions shall be made to organizations testing

for public safety, ~pon such terms and conditions and in such

amounts and proportions as the Board of Directors maintains and

determines, to be used by such institutions receiving the same

exclusively for educational, literary, scientific, religious and

charitable purposes.

(9) In the further event that the Corpora-

tion shall, at any time or times, be deemed to constitute a

“private foundation” as that term is defined in Section 509(a) of

the Internal Revenue Code, then the Corporation shall:

(al distribute its income for each

taxable year at such time and in such manner as not to subject

the Corporation to tax under Section 4942 of the Internal Revenue

(bl not engage in any act of self- amended in 1980 dealing as defined in Section 4941 of the Internal Revenue Code;

(cl not retain any excess business

holdings as defined in Section 4943 of the Internal Revenue Code;

(dl not make any investments in such

manner as to subject the Corporation to tax under Section 4944 of

the Internal Revenue Code; and

(e) not make any taxable expenditures,

as defined in Section 4945 of the Internal Revenue Code. FOURTH: The Corporation shall have no members.

FIFTH: The right to vote on any and all matters

affecting the Corporation shall be vested exclusively in the

Board of Directors of the Corporation.

SIXTH: The number, terms of office, manner of election

and duties of the Board of Directors shall be set forth in the

Bylaws of the Corporation.

SEVENTH: The internal affairs of the Corporation shall

be regulated by the Board of Directors, whose actions shall be

consistent with the requirements of the District of Columbia

Nonprofit Corporation Act and the Bylaws of the Corporation.

EIGHTH: The post office address of the initial regis-

tered office of the Corporation in the District of Columbia shall

be 918 Sixteenth Street, N.W., \~ashington, D.C. 20006. The

registered agent at such address is C T Corporation System.

NINTH: The number of Directors constituting the ini-

tial Board of Directors of the Corporation is five. Their names

and addresses are as follows:

Mrs. Hak Ja Han 723 South Broadway Tarrytown, New York

Mr. Bo Hi Pak 1800 Briar Ridge Road McLean, Virginia

Mrs. Won Pok Choi 723 South Broadway Tarrytown, New York

Mr. David S. C. Kim 723 South Broadway Tarrytown, New York Mr. Won pil Kim 71-3 1st Ka, Chungpa-Dong Yongsan-Ku Seoul, Korea

The number of Directors of the Corporation shall be

provided in the Bylaws, provided that the number of Directors

shall not be less than three. The initial Board of Directors

shall serve until their successors shall be elected and qualify.

The Directors recognize and acknowledge that the

Reverend Sun Myung Moon has provided the inspiration and spirit-

ual leadership for the founding of the Corporation and is the

spiritual leader of the international Unification Church move-

TENTH: The names and addresses of the incorporators

are as follows:

Bo Hi Pak 1800 Briar Ridge Road McLean, Virginia

Judith A. Lejeune 519 Four Mile Road Alexandria, Virginia

Sandra M. McKeehan 519 Four Mile Road Alexandria, Virginia

~4(1?~ Bo Hi Pak

·~dt6A ~M~ J ith A. Lejeune

x1~ In .ilk !lo h~ Sandra M. McKeehan

Dated: February 1 , 1977

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I, LL(!.;. ~v---dvJ, a Notary Public, hereby certify that on the /~~ February, 1977, personally appeared before me Bo Hi Pak, Judith A. Lejeune and Sandra M. McKeehan, who signed the foregoing document as incorporators, and represented to me that the statemen.t_s_ ~ the__rein contained are true.

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THIS IS TO CERTIFY that all provisions of the District of Columbia

Non-profit Corporation Act have been complied with and ACCORD- INGLY this Certificate of _________________________Am~d!n~~:t;________________________ _

as of the date hereinafter mentioned.

Date February 5, 1980

PETER S. RIDLEY,

Recorder of Deeds, D. C.

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UNIFICATION CHURCH INTERNATIONAL

To: The Recorder of Deeds, D.C. Washington, D.C. Pursuant to the provisions of the District of Columbia Non-

profit Corporation Act, the undersigned adopts the following Articles

of Amendment to its Articles of Incorporation:

FIRST: The name of the corporation is Unification Church

International. SECOND: The following amendment of the Articles ox Incorpora-

tion was adopted by the Corporation in the manner prescribed by the

District of ColuIDbia Non-profit Corporation Act:

. THIRD: ‘A. ‘Organizational and Operilticnal ‘Purposes:

This Corporation is ,organized exclusively for charitable,

religious and/or educational purposes. Although tllis

Corporation has not sought to ,qualify for tax exempt

status pursuant to Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal

Revenue Code of 1954, it may choos!,! to do so at some point.

in the future. Unification Church International, both in

the past and in the future, has and \~ill dedicate itself ’

to the follmving activities:

1. To serve as an international organization assisting,

advising,’ coordinilting, and guiding the activities of

Unification Churches organized and the \’;orld. FEB 5 19B0

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,. - L - , . 2. To promote the \’lorship of God, and to sttldy, undcr-

stand and teach the Divine Principle, the ne\-r revelation

of God, and, ‘through the practical application of the

Divine Principle, to achieve the interdenominational,

interreligious, and international u~ification of world,Christianity and all other religion’s~

3. ,To establish,support and maintain, anywhere

in the. \qorld, such place o£ pla,ces for th~ ‘-lorship

of God and for the study, understanding and teaching .’ of the Divine Principle·as may be necessary or desir-’ , ~le, to further the theology of the Unification Church. :-.

, 4. To pUblish and disseminate throughout the ‘vorld ~

,ne~vspapers, books, tracts and other publications in

order to carry fonvard the dissemination and under-

standing of the Divine Principle, the unification

of world Christianity and all other religions, or

othengise to further the purposes of the Corporation.

5. To sponsor and conduct ‘cultural, educational,

of furthering the understanding of the Divine

Principle I tl)e unification of \-Iorld Christianity and

other religions, ‘<lOrld peace, harmony of all mankind,

interfaith understanding bebveen all races I colors

and creeds throughout the “lOrld, ‘and for such other

Now sec. 29.301-05 General powers - 3 - •

purposes consistent with the Divine Principle and the purposes of the Corporation.

B. Business Powers: In furtherance of the

Corporation’s purposes set forth above, the Corporation shall

have all those powers accruing to not for profit corporations

organized in the District of Columbia and currently set forth

in Section 29-1005 of the District of Columbia Code.

THIRD: The amendment was adopted at a meeting of the Board of

Directors held on December 16, 1979 , a t 723 South Broadway,

Tarrytown, New York, and received the vote of a majority of the

Directors in office, there being no members having voting rights in

respect thereof.

,iIJ/III.’ Date: fjAy/yU Corporate Seal

UNIFICATION CHURCH INTERNATIONAL