Newlywed couples attend a mass wedding ceremony of the Unification Church at Cheongshim Peace World Centre in Gapyeong, South Korea. — Reuters photo
SEOUL: Thousands of couples took part in a mass wedding yesterday by South Korea’s Unification Church, with the widow of church founder Sun Myung Moon presiding over the event at a giant stadium.
Three thousand identically-dressed couples from 62 countries, including 1,000 new couples and 2,000 already-married pairs, participated in the three-hour ceremony at Gapyeong which hosts the South Korean headquarters of the church.
Mass weddings, often held in sports stadiums with tens of thousands of couples, have long been …read more
Source: The Borneo Post
