Famularo, Franco
Dr. Franco Famularo (class of 1994 and 2020) is President of Family Federation for World Peace and Unification in Canada and is Chair of the Board of Trustees of Unification Theological Seminary. He is also North American coordinator of the International Summit Council for Peace of UPF and Canadian representative of the Sunhak Institute of History. He wrote “A History of the Unification Church in Canada, 1965-1991” (1994) as his Masters thesis.
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Gomyeong Inheritance: Canada’s Role in the Emergence of the Mother of Peace
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 22, 2021 – Pages 1-20 This article highlights a pivotal and little-known ceremony referred to as Gomyeong, which took place in Canada on June 14, 1991. Gomyeong is a Korean term that translates as the final decree that a king leaves for his subjects before passing away. Dr. Hak Ja…
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Words Matter: Linguistic, Historical and Theological Issues with the Term “Begotten”
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 18, 2017 – Pages 121-138 The word “begotten” is problematic for Unification teaching both within the Unification family and in efforts of Unificationists to reach out beyond Unification circles—especially to adherents of the Religions of the Book, namely, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Use of the word begotten is as challenging…