Hak Ja Han

===Increasing influence===
In 1992, Moon increased Han's position of authority within the Unification Church and announced "True Mother was elevated to True Father's level horizontally."<ref name="stymied">{{cite news | last1 =Fisher | first1 =Marc |first2=Jeff |last2=Leen | title =Stymied in U.S., Moon's Church Sounds a Retreat  | newspaper =[[The Washington Post]] | page =A1  | date =November 24, 1997}}</ref> Hak Ja Han has been Moon's successor, designated as leader of the Unification Church since 1993.<ref name="lewis" /><ref name="edwards">{{cite book | last =Edwards | first =Linda | title =A Brief Guide to Beliefs: Ideas, Theologies, Mysteries, and Movements | publisher =Westminster John Knox Press | year =2001 | page =[https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_s5t3/page/402 402] | isbn =0-664-22259-5 | url =https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_s5t3/page/402 }}</ref> [[Massimo Introvigne]] of the [[Center for Studies on New Religions]] writes in ''The Unification Church'' (2000):

<blockquote>The issue of succession is now of fundamental importance. The Reverend Moon will be eighty years old (by Korean age calculations, he turned eighty in 1999) in 2000. Mrs. Moon is fifty-seven years old. Since 1992 she has taken a more visible role, particularly in three world speaking tours in 1992, 1993, and 1999. Mrs. Moon has also spoken on Capitol Hill, at the United Nations, and in other parliaments around the world. Her relative youth and the respect with which she is held by the membership may be a point of stability for the Unification movement.<ref name="Introvigne">{{cite book | last =Introvigne | first =Massimo | author-link =Massimo Introvigne | title =The Unification Church (Studies in Contemporary Religions, 2) | publisher =[[Signature Books]]|year=2000|isbn=1-56085-145-7|pages=11, 33–34 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=CESNUR - From the Unification Church to the Unification Movement, 1994-1999: Five Years of Dramatic Changes |url=https://www.cesnur.org/testi/moon_1199.htm |access-date=2023-07-07 |website=www.cesnur.org}}</ref></blockquote>

[[George D. Chryssides]] predicted, in his book ''Exploring New Religions'' (2001), that Han would lead the Unification Church and preside over Blessing ceremonies after Moon's death, since she would then be "the remaining True Parent."<ref name="Chryssides">{{cite book  | last =Chryssides | first =George D. | author-link =George D. Chryssides | title =Exploring New Religions | publisher = Continuum International Publishing Group | year =2001 | page =134 | isbn =0-8264-5959-5 }}</ref>

In 2003, over 8,000 Unification members attended a ceremony in South Korea in which Han and Moon were remarried. This was said to be the fulfillment of the [[Marriage Supper of the Lamb]] written about in the [[Apocalypse of John]].<ref name="lewis" /> In 2010 [[National Public Radio]] reported that Unification Church services in the United States invoked the name of Han along with Moon in their opening greetings to congregants.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123805954&ps=cprs Unification Church Woos A Second Generation], [[Barbara Bradley Hagerty]], [[National Public Radio]], February 17, 2010</ref> In that same year, ''[[Forbes]]'' reported that Han was living in South Korea with her husband while their children took more responsibility for the day-to-day leadership of the Unification Church and its affiliated organizations.<ref name="fm2010">{{cite news | last =Kirk  | first =Donald | title =Sons rise in a Moon's shadow| work =[[Forbes]]|url = https://www.forbes.com/global/2010/0412/enterprise-moon-sun-myung-spiritual-unification-world-revival.html | date = May 2, 2010|access-date=October 22, 2010}}</ref>

After Sun Myung Moon's death in 2012, Han became the leader of the [[Family Federation for World Peace and Unification]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cesnur.org/2017/moon-program.htm|title = Life and Legacy of Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Movements}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SCHISM in the Unification Church |first=Dan |last=Fefferman |url=http://www.cesnur.org/2016/daejin_fefferman.pdf |website=www.cesnur.org }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/2/rev-sun-myung-moon-founder-times-dies-92/|title=The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of The Times, dies at 92|newspaper=[[The Washington Times]]}}</ref><ref>[http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/asia/Unification_Church_pres_sees_smaller_mass_weddings_77510.shtml Unification Church pres sees smaller mass weddings] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090322013906/http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/asia/Unification_Church_pres_sees_smaller_mass_weddings_77510.shtml |date=March 22, 2009 }}, ''Daily Monitor'', December 30, 2008</ref>