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Thousands marry at mass ceremony

WEDDING MOON More than 20,000 people gathered at Sun Moon University near Seoul, while about the same number joined simultaneous ceremonies worldwide

AP , ASAN, SOUTH KOREA

Many said they would celebrate with lunch afterward, and a select group was invited to a luncheon with Moon on Thursday at the Church’s waterside complex.

Moon, a self-proclaimed Messiah who says he was 15 when Jesus Christ called upon him to carry out his unfinished work, has courted controversy and criticism since founding the Unification Church in Seoul in 1954.

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