Unification Church asks Japan ruling party members to promote its policies

Two affiliated groups of the Unification Church sought to persuade ruling Liberal Democratic Party members to agree on policies they wished to promote in exchange for political endorsement in past elections, lawmakers said Thursday.Hideyuki Teshigawara, who heads the Unification Church's reform promotion headquarters, admitted that one of its affiliated groups, the Federation for World Peace, attempted to encourage some LDP lawmakers to sign a document incorporating the policies it wanted to realize.Sources close to the Unification Church said the two affiliated organizations appeared to ha…READ FULL ARTICLE