Our Founders

A Legacy of Love

The Legacy of Love website celebrates the numerous accomplishments of Rev Sun Myung Moon (1920-2012) and his wife Dr Hak Ja Han Moon. After marrying in 1960, they devoted their entire lives to creating a world where all people can live in peace, harmony, and happiness.

Known affectionately as the Father and Mother of Peace, they worked tirelessly to enable and reinforce committed marriages and strong, healthy families as the building block for peaceful societies, and to foster international and intercultural reconciliation.

Beyond religion, nationality, race and ethnicity, we are all one human family, the holy community of God, our heavenly parent.

Many international organisations were created to accomplish this purpose, including the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU), the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), the Women’s Federation for World Peace (WFWP), the International Association of Youth and Students for Peace (IAYSP), as well as many others across the world.

This website celebrates the centenary year of Father Moon’s birth and the couple’s 60th wedding anniversary. We welcome you, and encourage you to learn more about their inspiring vision of peace. Join in and make your own contribution!

Mother of Peace

For the first time, I am opening up a window into my life. I do so with the hope that the story of this life, lived in accordance with God’s love, will inspire in others the same mission,passion, devotion and dream.
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As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen

For years I have called for a world where all religions live together as one, all races live as one, and all nations exist as one. For thousands of years history has seen the continuous increase of divisions. Now, however, we live in an age of globalism. For the sake of the future we must become one.
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Core Belief

THE MARRIAGE BLESSING

Father and Mother Moon began their tradition of the Marriage Blessing in 1960 with their own wedding ceremony and have since passed on that Blessing to thousands of couples worldwide, encouraging them to include God, the heavenly parent, in their family relationships and to strive to live for the greater whole. In response to the general breakdown of traditional marriage and family today, the Marriage Blessing is an opportunity for couples to begin or renew and recommit to their marriage relationship and become part of a community of Blessed Couples who strive to embody God’s love and create healthy relationships in their families and beyond.