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2020-05-25 SEX TRAFFICKING in YOUR Community Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked. Psalm 97:10 Evil is the misuse of love. Good is the right and proper use of love. Good and evil started from one point--love. If we love God, that is all right. But if we love something or someone against God's will, that is evil. If we love someone or something in accordance with God's will, that is good. SMM, The Way of Tradition, Volume II Greetings! Hyung Jin Nim thanked the Sanctuarians who traveled to Allentown to pray in front of an abortion clinic. As a consequence of one mother making a decision for life, 2 twins were saved from death! He also announced the matching of his second son Shin Man with Dong Hee Jin, a blessed child in Korea. After the announcements, he showed Craig Sawyer's Contraland documentary on Sex Trafficking. Mr. Sawyer, who spoke at last year's Freedom Festival and will return again next October, got pressure to remove the sections about government officials being arrested for sex trafficking, but refused to do so. He has also had his Instagram and Twitter accounts shut down many times. Contraland tells the stories of how girls and boys as young as 12 years old are pimped by men and women out to pedophiles in communities all across America every day and how a team of committed veterans is capturing these perverts. The documentary shows a group of veterans who spot cartel traffickers which operate inside the U.S.A border with Mexico. It also shows the veterans and other citizens cooperating with local law enforcement in Connecticut and Utah to arrest predators. Craig Sawyer's own daughter Aspen was raped at age 18 for 5 hours and works to capture predators pretending to be a young teen for sale. Here are some of the points made in the documentary: Child sex trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal enterprise on earth. It generates an estimated $38 billion dollars each year in the U.S. Blackmail involving pedophilia is at the root of much of America's political corruption. 30,000 victims of sex trafficking die each year from abuse, disease, and neglect, some as young as six years old. Over 71% of trafficked children show suicidal tendencies. Sex traffickers condition their male and female victims with starvation, rape, gang rape, physical abuse, beating, confinement, forced drug use, and shame. No matter what town you live in, it's likely this is going on in your community. Sanctuary Church Sunday Service 5/24/2020 Boys as young as 8 years old are exposed to porn on the Internet and later become predators. Fatherless children or those with absentee or uninvolved dads are the most vulnerable to traffickers. The documentary includes a testimony of a girl who was trafficked by her own mother and a Treasury Department investigator arrested for sex with 13 year old girl. Pornography sites are often controlled by criminal organizations. Public figures who frequent them can be blackmailed and controlled for political purposes. Hyung Jin Nim explained passionately that in Cheon Il Guk (the Heavenly Nation) there will severe consequences for predators. We've been conditioned to be tolerant of everything. But we must not be tolerant of that which can destroy our children. Porn desensitizes. These predators must be severely punished, after due process obviously. Parents, both men and women, need to realize there are predators roaming on the Internet. After posting an ad for child sex, 5,000 LOCAL requests were received within 30 days. The fallen Eve culture wants to protect the predators, because she is working with him. Young boys need to see predators punished. We should not depend on "the government" to solve this problem. Even average citizens have sent out ads pretending to offer sex with underage girls and then posted videos of pedophile "customers" coming to a Walmart to meet for that purpose. ********** A LETTER TO REV. KWAK Vienna, May 23, 2020 Dear Rev. Chung Hwan Kwak! My name is Johann Hobl from Vienna, Austria. I am part of the 118 couples Blessing in London in 1978. My wife Madeleine is from France. We have four children. I received your letter from April 22, 2020 and read it with great interest. I have some serious questions about what you wrote in your letter. You speak a lot about Hyun Jin Nim and his Inauguration as vice-president of FFWPU in July 19, 1998. True Father spoke greatly about Hyun Jin Nim's mission and responsibility. I also honor your Introductory Address as well at Hyun Jin Nim's Inaugural Address. I would like to share with you some words of True Fathers speech, during the Inauguration Ceremony, it is printed in Today's World Magazine from July 1998: My advice today to my son Hyun Jin is to please maintain a standard of absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience in front of God, in front of True Parents, in front of his spouse and in front of all Family Federation members. I order to establish the completed foundation of the fourth Adam and the realm of the fourth Adam. Hyun Jin Nim still has a course to go on the family level, clan level, tribal level and national level. Therefore he has to apply his absolute standard of faith, love and obedience before everyone. Here are the last words True Father spoke in his speech to Hyun Jin Nim: From Hyun Jin Nim's point of view, if True Father asks him to do ten things, Hyun Jin Nim would come and say, "Father, that is not enough, I will do 1,000 things." As long as this kind of relationship exists between Hyun Jin and myself, the future of the Unification Church FFWPUI will be great. Amen, amen, amen. Through this words I see, True Father awaited a close relationship and sincerity in Hyun Jin Nim`s faith, love and obedience, but 10 years later, what did True Father say? On April 16, 2008 True Father said: I can leave someone in charge of my work on my behalf. Currently, there is no one among our church members who surpasses Hyung Jin in his standard of faith or in any other way. Do you understand? I am appointing him. Two days later on April 18, 2008 True Father held the Inauguration of Hyung Jin Nim as international President and regional President of FFWPU in Korea. True Father's prayer and speech I found in Todays World May 2008 There is a serious question: What happened with Hyun Jin Nim? True Father gave Hyun Jin Nim no further responsibilities. My question now is: Why didn't you mention Hyung Jin Nim even once in your letter? (Read rest of Johann Hobl's "Letter to Rev. Kwak") ********** Hak Ja Han Crosses the Finish Line, Alone On May 8, 2020 the Only Begotten Daughter told Unificationists that ONLY she, not True Father, crossed the finish line, saying: For 54 years True Parents have been running this marathon. In 2013, on January 13, True Parents (Hak Ja Han) proclaimed Foundation Day and who guided everyone (across) the finish line? ONLY True Mother crossed the finish line. 5/8/2020 HJH Calls True Father a Failure Whom She Forgave It makes sense if you think about it. She teaches that she was born sinless and that on 3.16.1960 Sun Myung Moon's Original Sin was removed when he married her. On July 1, 2014 at the Cheon Jeong Gung Palace she said, "The process of changing the lineage occurred while I was in my mother's womb. This is something you have to believe." On December 30, 2016, Mother said at a meeting at the Cheon Jeong Gung palace with 200 wives of families who received the Holy Blessing between 1960 and 1968: "Father, who was born with original sin, could have that original sin removed as a result of meeting me, the only begotten daughter born into this world without original sin. Father was not supposed to marry any other woman before meeting me."[i] [i] "Parents' Special Gathering for Early Woman Leaders" http://familyfedihq.org/2016/12/true-parents-news-weekly-update-108/True (Read rest of "Hak Ja Han Crosses the Finish Line, Alone") ********** UNIFICATION SANCTUARY USA EMAILS 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 ********** Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery by Marie Koh In this incredible age of the internet where the purchase of goods online is but a click away from a lap-top, a virtual world of the indulgences of the flesh emerges; it is one of a much darker kind - the cybercrime of child sex trafficking. This heinous criminal activity of 'selling and buying' of online sex trafficking has found its way into the home of almost anyone who possesses a computer device. This underworld of internet perpetrators operates in broad daylight every day under the guise of dating agencies, video game chat rooms, forums, and websites of all kinds. A perpetrator has the ability to reach a child without the consent of a parent or being recognized as a threat. In addition to this, pedophile rings circulate in rich and poor neighborhoods alike, they can pose as a 'friend,' relative or neighbor. They can be living on your street, work at your local food store, school, a favorite charity organization, and many times, they just look like regular folks. Tragically, human trafficking is big business.
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