Followed by a Mass of wedlock 40,000 People

Asan, KOMPAS.com - The bride who uses a white dress and the groom wearing a long coat lined up neatly following the wedding ceremony in Asan, South Korea, Wednesday (14/10).

They are some of the participants of the mass wedding involving 40,000 people from several countries. The couple was blessed by the Reverend Sun Myung-moon (89), founder of the Unification Church.

In Asan, he blesses 20,000 people. The rest followed the ceremony of blessing over the Internet broadcasting, ranging from Sweden to Brazil.

Moon's first mass wedding held in the 1960s. At that time, he married 24 couples renew vows and 12 other couples. In two decades, his followers multiply, and implementation by the Moon's mass weddings increasingly expanded to Japan, Europe, Africa, Latin America, U.S., and elsewhere.

Mass wedding also marks the displacement of power from the Moon to his son, the Moon Hyung-jin (30). Church officials also said the mass wedding anniversary marked the 90th anniversary of Moon and his marriage to 50. This mass wedding ceremony also attracted criticism because there are people who consider Moon to cults and brainwashing his followers.