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Press Advisory - February 7
World Culture and Sports Festival '99


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Special Convocation, 'Family Ethics and World Peace' 
Feb 4th -8th at the Lotte Hotel



Rev. Moon Gives Details for New Religious Organization 


	The Reverend Sun Myung Moon outlined his plan for a new,
international  religious body that he hopes will one day serve as a
part of the United Nations.
	In a speech here this afternoon before a cross section of 400 world
leaders, Rev. Moon revealed detailed plans for the new religious body.
He asked those in attendance, "Might it not even be possible to
imagine the UN as adopting a two-house structure?"  He suggested one
house representing the nations' political interests and another house,
a senate, representing the more religious and internal aspects of
society.
	Through mutual respect and cooperation, said Rev. Moon, these two
houses would be able to contribute enormously to the realization of
world peace. The political wisdom if the world's leaders, he
explained, could thus be effectively complemented by the wisdom and
vision of the world's most prominent religious leaders.
	It's widely believed that Rev. Moon considers this new organization
the culmination of a lifetime dedicated to world peace. Its founding
members will be the leadership of twelve other cultural groups that he
has been supporting for many years.
	Introducing Rev. Moon at today's inaugural was Prof. Ninian Smart, a
professor of comparative religions at the University of California at
Santa Barbara.  "Rev. Moon is to be praised for this initiative," said
Dr. Smart.  He then listed ten war zones in the world whose conflicts
are rooted in religious strife.
	Dr. Nicholas Kittrie, chair of the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for
Justice and Peace, which is located in Washington, DC, also voiced his
support for the new initiative. "Rev. Moon and his followers are not
only capable of dreaming impossible dream but are capable of
implementing impossible dream," said Dr. Kittrie. 
The name of the new organization will be, "The Inter-Religious and
International Federation for World Peace".