Japan Unification Church offers prayers to stop abductions

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UPIAsia.com reported yesterday:

Tokyo, Japan — In the early summer heat, some 500 people gathered in a public park located within the government quarters of Tokyo last week, to offer quiet prayers for freedom of faith in Japan.

At this outdoor meeting, chairman of its organizing committee and president of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity in Japan, Rev. Eiji Tokuno, pointed out, "Over the past 40 years, more than 4,000 followers of our church were abducted and/or detained" by their relatives in order to change the members' minds.

The church bases the number on its own statistics. But a dozen books have recorded victims' accounts of how they were kidnapped, detained and deprogrammed by Christian pastors, professional deprogrammers and lawyers who were hired by the victims' kin, including their own parents.

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