List Of Unification Church Affiliated Organizations
There are a number of organizations founded, run, or supported by the Unification Church, and its founder Sun Myung Moon. Commentators have mentioned Moon's belief in a literal Kingdom of God on earth to be brought about by human effort as a motivation for his establishment of groups that are not strictly religious in their purposes. Others have said that one purpose of these groups is to pursue social respectability for the church. Together with the church and its members and supporters, these organizations constitute the Unification Movement.
For legal and tax purposes in several countries, various projects inspired or directed by Moon or members of his church are required to maintain existence as separate entities. Under United States federal tax law, 501(c)(3) charitable institutions, like churches, may not engage in certain types of political speech without losing their tax exempt status. As such, Moon, the Unification Church, and members of the church have created organisations such as Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP) which operate under the less stringent requirements of a 501(c)(4) "non-profit, educational foundation".
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