[True Father] Released from Seodaemun Prison - October 4, 1955

on October 4, 1955.

.&Notice ofEwha University and Yonsei University Incident

At that t· e, the u11ification chu1·ch was pe1·secuted by

the Christians. When the unification church’s new test· ony was come up, the representative Christians: Ewha Woman’s University took action against the unificationists .

• True Father and other members on the trial

The Christian members sent the over eighty’s anonymous letter to the police. It was about the unificationists. Because of this, True Father was arrested on charges of avoiding the draft and thus violating the military service law.

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However, there was no any evidence of True Father’s avoiding the draft and thus violating the military

se1·vice law. Therefore, on October 4, 1955, True Father was found innocent and released by the Seoul Dist1·ict Court.

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We can view that ordeal as religious persecution

because the government of Syngman Rhee was

incited Christian leaders publicity.

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A After T1ue Father was released from Seodaemun Prison

The consequence of that incarceration was that the Unification Church lost the God-given opportunity to launch the worldwide providence on the foundation of Christianity in the Republic of Korea. Instead, it had to once again face a wilderness course.

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.A The Ewha University Incident relevant members ( 1958.11.01 , the original Cheongpa-dong headquarters church)

However, True Father was waiting the time for the new starting by strengthen the members’ solidarity. The church members also offered the prayer devotion for the new starting.

£ The original Cheongpa-dong headq ers church

As tl1e part of a new starting, On Octobe1· 7, 1955, rigl1t after True Father was released from Seodaemun Prison, the Unification Headquarters Church moved to 71-3, Cheongpa-dong 1-ga, Yongsan-gu, Seoul.

, It was my destiny to start on the foundation of Christianity, but j because Christianity rejected m~e- 1•h•ad- to- e•st•a•b•li.., sh a church that ·. ‘”· f - .. . •• •;..:·.,,·”’”. .. “·’ . . ·, :. ;:::::.~.., • was on an __equal level _with C~isti_~~ty. This· is ,~he Unification .. -· ;,•-•’ . .. .. . . ~- ..

,Church. Those who established the foundation of this church . ·· a ···· l :<_,through hardships “’rere those second generation- students “’rho : ‘I . . I ~~ ::;- : , .. ‘,;-~ •· “’rere chased out by the first generation Christians. These ,, . . . ;, -~ Ii· :,_;:;::-~•,JI ,. . -~students of the second generati~n h~1, t~ go out· ~ d suffer, and : 1 ·, inde ify everything in history. ~ecause Cliristianity co~]~ not j fulfill its responsibility centering on th~ standard of saving the : ’ ’ ,, ’ “’ ‘1111’” •• ’ ••• ’ .~world, the Christians all becan,i_e the enemies of this n~w·church. I, 1 ,: Hence, even though the Christi; ~ wer~ ~ci’ breakdo~~ th\ :! alls ! , ‘’of the individual, family, trib;,’ and ;;’::~rit,~the Unifii::tion • ·: .’A ,,”church had to offer the sacrificial pri~ t~ b~ijd the spiritu~’a’””I- =· and physical foundation on a par ‘<’-ith wliat had been lost. -

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