A Japanese court has ordered the disbandment of the controversial Unification Church over its connection to the death of ...

The court says the Federation of World Peace and Unification has inflicted ‘an unprecedentedly large amount of damage’ on ...

The Unification Church has had close ties to world politics for decades, but a court ruling in Japan could be the end of the organisation.

A Japanese court has ordered the Unification Church to be stripped of official recognition. This means it will lose its tax ...

This strips the group of its tax-free status as a religious corporation, but does not stop it from operating in Japan. Read ...

A Japanese court ordered on Tuesday that a religious sect be stripped of official recognition, the government said, in the ...