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of the founder and leader Ho Ho-Bin, who claimed she will become the mother of the future messiah. Other churches in this group included the Israel
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with women in his early 1950s ministry in Korea; the author later rescinded these statements, though several other ex-members from that era corroborated them, including Moon's first wife. At least one researcher, a
Finnish critical ex-member of the Church, Kirsti L. Nevalainen, also affirms these
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Moon was arrested various times in 1950s Korea, in some cases reportedly for sexual rituals or orgies of this nature. In 1993, a Moon ex-follower published a memoir that described Moon's scandalous relationships engaging in
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in some accounts was confused with ritual nudity, practised in some ceremonies by Korean new religious movements, including some Moon had contacts with in his early years, to claim that members had achieved perfect purity.
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