Newt Gingrich and Dr. Demian Dunkley on Religious Freedom, Dr. Hak Ja Han, and the Growing Global Threat to Faith.
For more than six decades, Dr. Hak Ja Han has built a global movement centered on faith, peace, and religious freedom. Now, at 83 years old and in frail health, she is at the center of a high-profile criminal case in South Korea. Prosecutors have accused the co-founder of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification of bribery, violating political finance laws, embezzlement, and ordering the destruction of evidence, allegations she has denied. With prosecutors seeking a 13-year prison sentence, Newt Gingrich argues that her treatment raises much larger questions about religious liberty and the growing pressure facing people of faith around the world.
On this episode of Newt’s World, Newt is joined by Dr. Demian Dunkley, president of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification USA, to examine Dr. Han’s extraordinary life and the events that led to her detention. Dunkley recounts her childhood escape from communist North Korea, decades of work alongside her late husband, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, and her efforts to promote peace across political, national, and religious divides. Their conversation also explores the current case in South Korea and why Newt believes Dr. Han’s experience should concern anyone who values the freedom to worship, speak, and live according to one’s faith.
