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Friday, November 10, 2006
Rev. Moon Wins In German Constitutional Court
Today's International Herald Tribune reports the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and his wife have won a religious freedom challenge in Germany's Constitutional Court. German officials had denied visas to the couple in 1995 because they considered Moon's Unification Church to be a dangerous sect. A state court upheld the refusal in 2002, but yesterday Germany's highest court said that the government had not shown a threat to public safety, and the government had no right to impose its values on the religious group.