Unification Church founder the Rev Sun Myung Moon is fighting for his life in hospital, suffering from pneumonia.

North Korea vowed today to uphold Kim Jong Il’s son as “supreme commander” as the campaign to install the young man as the next leader of the socialist nation gained pace one week after his father’s death.

Brides in white gowns and Japanese kimonos joined grooms in black suits and red ties today for the Unification Church’s biggest mass wedding in a decade – a spectacle said to involve 40,000 people around the world.

The Rev Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church, known as the Moonies, was among 14 people injured in a helicopter crash in South Korea, fire officials said today.

THE Vatican yesterday expressed deep concern over a possible new scandal set off by an African archbishop who announced he was championing the cause of married priests in the Roman Catholic Church.

A Zambian archbishop who scandalised the Catholic Church by getting married last year only to later renounce the union says that despite a long period of seclusion, he is still not ready to see the woman again.

The South Korean wife of a Roman Catholic archbishop has reportedly written to the Pope asking to see her husband.

An archbishop whose marriage scandalised the Vatican is giving up his wife and returning to the Roman Catholic Church.

The Pope was today holding talks with a married archbishop who has been threatened with excommunication.

The Vatican today threatened to excommunicate an archbishop who married this at a Moonie mass weddings.

A Roman Catholic archbishop who was married to a physician in a group wedding conducted by the Rev Sun Myung Moon has put himself ‘‘outside the church’’ and can no longer be considered a bishop, the Vatican said today.