Hak Ja Han Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Women's Federation for World Peace=== In 1992, Han established the [[Women's Federation for World Peace]] (WFWP) with the support of many Unification members,<ref name="eventworks">{{cite news | last =Cuda | first =Amanda | title =Event works for understanding through friendships | work =[[Connecticut Post]] | page =Section: Womanwise | date =December 28, 2004 }}</ref><ref name="wifetospeak">{{cite news | last =Peterson | first =Thair | title =Bridging the Interracial Gap | work =[[Long Beach Press-Telegram]] | page =A3 | date =March 21, 1998 }}</ref><ref name="kansas">{{cite news | last =Staff | title =Moon's wife to speak in Lawrence | work =[[The Kansas City Star]] | page =E10 | publisher =The Kansas City Star Co. | date =June 19, 1993 }}</ref> and traveled the world speaking at conventions on its behalf.<ref name="bainbridge">{{cite book | last =Bainbridge | first =William Sims | author-link =William Sims Bainbridge | title =The Sociology of Religious Movements | publisher =Routledge | year =1997 | pages =203β205 | isbn = 0-415-91202-4}}</ref> The WFWP's purpose is to encourage women to work more actively in promoting peace in their communities and greater society,<ref name="kansas" /> and it includes 143 member countries.<ref name="wifetospeak" /> Han organized a conference in Tokyo in 1993, which was the first anniversary of the WFWP. The keynote speaker was former [[Vice President of the United States]] [[Dan Quayle]]'s wife [[Marilyn Tucker Quayle]], and in a speech at the event Han spoke positively of Mrs. Quayle's humanitarian work.<ref name="shupe">{{cite book |last1=Shupe |first1=Anson D. |first2=Bronislaw |last2=Misztal | title =Religion, mobilization, and social action | publisher =Greenwood Publishing Group | year =1998 | pages =211, 213 | isbn =0-275-95625-3 }}</ref> In 1993, Han traveled to 20 cities in the United States promoting WFWP,<ref name="bonham" /> as well as to 12 countries.<ref name="kansas" /> At a stop in [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]] she told attendants: "If a family is not centered on God's ideal of love, there will be conflict among the members of that family. Without God's love as an absolute center, such a family will ultimately break down. A nation of such families will also decline."<ref name="bonham">{{cite news | last =Bonham | first =Nicole A. | title =Moon's Wife Urges Utah Women To Unite Family Against Corruption | work =[[The Deseret News]] | page =A8 | publisher =Deseret News Publishing Company | date =June 5, 1993 }}</ref> Her 1993 speeches in the United States focused on increasing violence in the U.S., and the degradation of the family unit.<ref>{{cite news | last =Graham | first =Jennifer | title =Rev. Moon's Wife to Speak: Activist Will Stump for World Peace Saturday at Fairgrounds | work =[[The State (newspaper)|The State]] | page =2B | date =July 16, 1993}}</ref> In 1995, Han spoke at a WFWP event in [[Japan]] with former United States president [[George H. W. Bush]].<ref name="sullivan">{{cite news | last =Sullivan | first =Kevin | title =Bush Stresses Family In Tokyo Speech - Former President Addresses Followers of Unification Church Leader's Wife | newspaper =[[The Washington Post]] | page =A27 | date =September 15, 1995 }}</ref> Han spoke after Bush's speech and praised Bush, crediting him for the decline of communism and saying that he must save America from "the destruction of the family and moral decay."<ref name="sullivan" /><ref>{{cite news | last = Staff | title = SEPT. 10-16; Mr. Bush's Asian Tour | work = [[The New York Times]] | date = September 17, 1995 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/17/weekinreview/sept-10-16-mr-bush-s-asian-tour.html | access-date =April 21, 2009}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page