:Dan Fefferman

Fefferman became a member of the Unification Church in 1968.{{cite news |last=ICSA staff |title=Fefferman, Dan - profile |work=International Cultic Studies Association |publisher=www.icsahome.com |year=2009 |url=http://www.icsahome.com/infoserv_profile/fefferman_dan.asp |access-date=2009-11-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417031457/http://icsahome.com/infoserv_profile/fefferman_dan.asp |archive-date=2009-04-17 }} After that he obtained degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and from the Unification Theological Seminary. Fefferman is married with two daughters, and lives in Washington, D.C., with his family.

In 1974, Fefferman was the executive director of the National Prayer and Fast Committee, a group organized by Sun Myung Moon to support Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.{{cite book | last =Boettcher | first =Robert | author2 =Gordon L. Freedman | title =Gifts of Deceit | publisher =Holt, Rinehart and Winston | year =1980 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/giftsofdeceitsun00boet/page/152 152, 164] | isbn =0-03-044576-0 }} According to one report Moon had chosen Fefferman (who is Jewish) to become the Prime Minister of Israel at some future time. Fefferman was an official with the Freedom Leadership Foundation, which was also founded by Moon, and deemed a "political arm" of the Unification Church. According to testimony provided by Fefferman to the United States Congress, at a scheduled September 1974 rally by the Freedom Leadership Foundation against the government of Japan, members debated cutting off their fingers as a form of raising dramatic effect, but instead decided on egg throwing. The rally was canceled prior to being carried out.{{cite news | last =Babcock | first =Charles R. | title =Moon Sect Support of Nixon Detailed | work =The Washington Post | page =A1 | date =November 10, 1977 | url =https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/138203752.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Nov+10%2C+1977&author=By+Charles+R.+BabcockWashington+Post+Staff+Writer&pub=The+Washington+Post++%281974-Current+file%29&edition=&startpage=A1&desc=Moon+Sect+Support+of+Nixon+Detailed | access-date =July 5, 2017 | archive-date =October 23, 2012 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20121023144523/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/138203752.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Nov+10,+1977&author=By+Charles+R.+BabcockWashington+Post+Staff+Writer&pub=The+Washington+Post++(1974-Current+file)&edition=&startpage=A1&desc=Moon+Sect+Support+of+Nixon+Detailed | url-status =dead }}

Fefferman testified in August 1977 before the Fraser Committee, a subcommittee of the United States House of Representatives which investigated possible ties between Sun Myung Moon and the South Korean National Intelligence Service ("KCIA"). Testimony from Fefferman confirmed that he had social ties to officials within the South Korean embassy. Fefferman testified that he had arranged a meeting in 1975 between Republican aide Edwin Feulner of the Heritage Foundation and South Korean Minister Kim Yung Hwan, to potentially put together a group of congressional aides who would travel to South Korea.{{cite book | last =Bellant | author-link =Russ Bellant | first =Russ | title =The Coors Connection | publisher =South End Press | year =1999 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/coorsconnectionh00bell/page/5 5–6] | isbn =0-89608-416-7 | url =https://archive.org/details/coorsconnectionh00bell/page/5 }} Hwan was then-station chief for the KCIA. During his testimony, Fefferman refused to answer nine questions from the subcommittee, saying that they violated his constitutional rights to freedom of religion and association. The subcommittee recommended that Fefferman be cited for contempt of Congress.{{cite news | last =Associated Press | author-link =Associated Press | title =Moon official balks at probe, faces House contempt action | work =Eugene Register-Guard | date =November 5, 1977 | url =https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rRMRAAAAIBAJ&pg=5054,1158886&dq=moon-official-balks-at-probe-faces&hl=en }}{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite news | last =The New York Times staff | title =New York Times Abstracts | work =The New York Times | page =9 | date =August 5, 1977}} Fefferman, speaking to The Michigan Daily in 1980, said the subcommittee's recommendations were never taken up, and no charges were pressed.{{cite news | last =Hirschel | first = Alison | title = Rev. Moon's CARP recruits on campus | work =The Michigan Daily | date =April 20, 1980 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uUZKAAAAIBAJ&pg=1894,5213859&}}

In 1977 Fefferman served as leader of the Unification Church in the state of Illinois,{{cite news | last =Reid | first =T.R. | title =House Subcommittee's Report Links Rev. Moon to the KCIA | work =The Washington Post | page =A7 | date =August 5, 1977 | url =https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/120059729.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Aug+5%2C+1977&author=By+T.R.+ReidWashington+Post+Staff+Writer&pub=The+Washington+Post++%281974-Current+file%29&edition=&startpage=A7&desc=House+Subcommittee%27s+Report+Links+Rev.+Moon+to+the+KCIA | archive-url =https://archive.today/20130131175359/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/120059729.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Aug+5,+1977&author=By+T.R.+ReidWashington+Post+Staff+Writer&pub=The+Washington+Post++(1974-Current+file)&edition=&startpage=A7&desc=House+Subcommittee's+Report+Links+Rev.+Moon+to+the+KCIA | url-status =dead | archive-date =January 31, 2013 }} as well as regional church director for the Midwestern United States.{{cite book | last =Yamamoto | first =J. Isamu |author2=Alan W. Gomes | title =Unification Church | publisher =Zondervan | year =1995 | page =22 | isbn = 0-310-70381-6}} In 1982, he was headquarters director and national president of Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP),{{cite news | last =Shaw | first =Terri | title =Mimeographs Roar In Propaganda War | work =The Washington Post | page =A1 | date =March 7, 1982|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/136888142.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Mar+7%2C+1982&author=By+Terri+Shaw+Washington+Post+Foreign+Service&pub=The+Washington+Post++%281974-Current+file%29&edition=&startpage=A1&desc=Mimeographs+Roar+In+Propaganda+War|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023144534/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/136888142.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Mar+7,+1982&author=By+Terri+Shaw+Washington+Post+Foreign+Service&pub=The+Washington+Post++(1974-Current+file)&edition=&startpage=A1&desc=Mimeographs+Roar+In+Propaganda+War|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 23, 2012}} a collegiate organization founded by Moon and church members in 1955."In 1955, Reverend Moon established the Collegiate Association for the Research of the Principle (CARP). CARP is now active on many campuses in the United States and has expanded to over eighty nations. This association of students promotes intercultural, interracial, and international cooperation through the Unification world view." [http://www.unification.org/global_outreach.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105230509/http://www.unification.org/global_outreach.html|date=2018-01-05}}{{cite book | last = Storey | first = John Woodrow | author2 = Glenn H. Utter | title = Religion and Politics | publisher = ABC-CLIO | location = Santa Barbara | year = 2002 | isbn = 1-57607-218-5 | page = [https://archive.org/details/religionpolitics00stor/page/99 99] | url = https://archive.org/details/religionpolitics00stor/page/99 }}[http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Books/Huca/Huca-06.htm A National Movement Emerges: 1972–74 – A History Of The Unification Church In America 1959–74 – Michael L Mickler] It was described by The Washington Post as "the youth organization of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church", and by the ICSA as "the UC's youth arm". Fefferman was the editor of the national journal of the Unification Church in 1989,{{cite news | last =Hatch | first =Walter | title =Mainstream Moon - The Unification Church, once relegated to cult status, now is exerting subtle but growing political influence here and around the world | work =The Seattle Times | page =A1 | date =February 12, 1989 }} and served as chief editor of the first edition of Divine Principle in English, as well as other Unification Church publications.

In 2016 Fefferman gave a presentation at a conference held by CESNUR, a non-profit organization which both studies and advocates for the religious freedom of new religious movements, on the divisions within the Unification Church since Sun Myung Moon's death in 2012.{{cite news |last1=Dunkel |first1=Tom |date=May 21, 2018 |title=Locked and Loaded for the Lord |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2018/05/21/feature/two-sons-of-rev-moon-have-split-from-his-church-and-their-followers-are-armed/ |access-date=November 27, 2020}}{{Cite web |date=2 March 2017 |title=Leaders call for moral and innovative leadership at Global Peace Convention |url=https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/129075/leaders-call-for-moral-and-innovative-leadership-at-global-peace-convention |access-date=30 June 2022 |website=SUNSTAR |language=English}}SCHISM in the Unification Church

By Dan Fefferman http://www.cesnur.org/2016/daejin_fefferman.pdf

Since 1984, Fefferman has been the executive director of the Unification Church affiliated organization the International Coalition for Religious Freedom in Virginia, which is active in protesting what it considers to be threats to religious freedom by governmental agencies.{{cite news | last =Ribadeneira | first =Diego | title =Ire at school Star of David ruling unites ACLU, Pat Robertson | work =The Boston Globe | page =B2 | publisher =The New York Times Company | date =August 21, 1999 }} In 1999 the International Coalition for Religious Freedom filed a lawsuit in United States district court in Baltimore, Maryland, against a Maryland state task force which was investigating new religious movements on state college campuses.{{cite news | last =Dorsey | first =Gary | title =Unification Church group sues state over task force; Investigation of cults called unconstitutional | work =The Baltimore Sun | page =2B | date =August 26, 1999 }}{{cite journal|last =Hunter| first=Howard O. |author2=Holly Price|title=Regulation of Religious Proselytism in the United States|journal=Brigham Young University Law Review|page=538|publisher=www.law2.byu.edu| date =August 2001 | url =http://www.law2.byu.edu/lawreview/archives/2001/2/hun6.pdf | access-date = 2010-09-07}} Fefferman commented to The Boston Globe about the case, "The United States has correctly criticized European states for scrutinizing smaller and newer religions through government commissions such as this one. The state of Maryland has been manipulated into engaging in religious McCarthyism by carrying out a biased inquisition into new religious minorities as 'cults.'"{{cite news | last =Argetsinger | first =Amy | title =Task Force Finds Few Instances of Campus Cults | work =The Washington Post | page =M4 | date =October 14, 1999 }} In 1999 Fefferman defended the rights of Wiccan soldiers in the United States military to practice their faith.Spellbound, Sacramento Bee, August 12, 1999

In 2000, Fefferman wrote to his colleagues about the Million Family March, planned to be held in Washington, D.C., and sponsored by Moon and Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, acknowledging that the two leaders' views differed on multiple issues but shared a view of a "God-centered family".{{cite news | last =Clarkson | first =Frederick | title =Million Moon March | work =Salon | publisher =Salon.com, Inc. | date =October 9, 2000 | url =http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/09/march/print.html | access-date =2009-11-05 | url-status =dead | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20110501125529/http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/10/09/march/print.html | archive-date =May 1, 2011 }} In 2001 Bill Gertz, author and an investigative reporter for The Washington Times, which was owned by the Unification Church, cited Fefferman as a person who "contributed valuable inspiration, advice, help, and support" to Gertz's book Betrayal.{{cite book | last =Gertz | first =Bill | title =Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security | publisher =Regnery Publishing | year =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/betrayal00bill/page/287 287] | isbn =0-89526-196-0 | url =https://archive.org/details/betrayal00bill/page/287 }}

In 2004 Fefferman said that religious persecution of Muslims is probably under reported due to the fact that many victims are refugees, in both Muslim and non-Muslim countries.{{cite news| last = Russell | first = Robin | title = People of faith, not politicians can reduce terrorism | work =The Dallas Morning News | date = November 6, 2004}} Fefferman gave a presentation on the Unification Church at a conference of the International Cultic Studies Association in 2004.{{cite web|url=http://www.cultinfobooks.com/infoserv_events/2004/aff_conference_2004_06AB_presenters%20.htm |title=Conference 2004 AB - Draft Presenters |access-date=December 8, 2009 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720073813/http://www.cultinfobooks.com/infoserv_events/2004/aff_conference_2004_06AB_presenters%20.htm |archive-date=July 20, 2008 }}{{cite news | last =ICSA staff | title =Conference 2004 AB - Draft Agenda | work =International Cultic Studies Association | publisher =www.cultinfobooks.com | date =June 2004 | url =http://www.cultinfobooks.com/infoserv_events/2004/aff_conference_2004_06AB_draft_agenda.htm | access-date = 2009-11-06 }} In 2008 he gave a presentation on the Unification Church at the London School of Economics at a conference sponsored by the organizations INFORM and CESNUR.{{cite news | last =CESNUR staff | title =The 2008 International Conference | work =CESNUR | publisher =www.cesnur.org | date =April 2008 | url =http://www.cesnur.org/2008/london_prg.htm | access-date = 2009-11-06}} In 2009 he criticized the government of Kazakhstan for its treatment of religious minorities, including members of the Unification Church.{{cite news | last =Fefferman |first = Dan | title = What values are shared? | work =The Washington Times |publisher=News World Communications | date =February 16, 2009 | url =http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/16/what-values-are-shared/ | access-date = 2009-11-09 }}

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• [http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Books/40Years/40-3-20.htm 40 Years in America], Dan Fefferman, www.tparents.org
• [http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Talks/Feffermn/0-Toc.htm The Words of the Fefferman Family], www.tparents.org
• [http://www.lermanet.com/cos/suitmaryland.html Suit against Maryland Cult Taskforce], Lermanet.com

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