Ill Moon faces hospital move

The Unification Church said the Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s condition has worsened and he will be moved to a church-owned hospital near his home.

Mr Moon is a self-proclaimed messiah whose church runs a worldwide multibillion-dollar religious and business empire that includes the hospital.

Officials said today that the church founder has developed new complications since being treated for pneumonia at Seoul St Mary’s Hospital earlier this month, and doctors in Seoul say they cannot cure him.

The complications involve Mr Moon’s kidney and liver but officials did not elaborate further.

The church plans to move the unconscious 92-year-old to Cheongshim Hospital in a town north east of Seoul.

The church says followers will pray over him and he will be given expert medical treatment.