PHILIPPINES: MORE THAN 1500 FILIPINOS TAKE PART IN WORLD'S LARGEST EVER MASS WEDDING

Record ID: 584638

  • Title: PHILIPPINES: MORE THAN 1500 FILIPINOS TAKE PART IN WORLD'S LARGEST EVER MASS WEDDING
  • Date: 25th August 1995
  • Summary: MANILA, PHILIPPINES (AUGUST 25, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV PEOPLE IN BRIDAL CLOTHES ENTERING THE NINOY AQUINO STADIUM 0.06 2. SV PEOPLE IN BRIDAL CLOTHES OUTSIDE STADIUM 0.10 3. SV COUPLES MINGLE AS THEY WAIT FOR CEREMONY TO BEGIN 0.14 4. SCU SMILING BRIDE 0.17 5. SCU BRIDE SAYING "I'M VERY EXCITED TO MEET MY HUSBAND.
  • Embargoed: 9th September 1995 13:00
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  • Location: MANILA, PHILIPPINES
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  • Country: Phillippines
  • Reuters ID: LVA9JE1QEEKRKRTQBNVJOYT96ACE
  • Story Text: More than 1,500 Filipinos took their marriage vows on Friday (August 25) as they took part in the world's largest ever mass wedding stretching across several continents.

    Many of the Filipino brides and grooms attending Friday's ceremony in Manila clutched photographs of their fiances whom they had yet to meet.

    They were only some of the 325,000 couples who pledged their troth by satellite link-up across the continents in a ceremony arranged by Korean evangelist Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church.

    The main ceremony was conducted in the South Korean capital, Seoul, where 30,000 people braved pouring rain to take their wedding vows.

    According to the rules of the church, the marriage can only be consummated 40 days after the ceremony.

    Moon, a South Korean, founded the Unification Church in Seoul in 1954. His followers, often referred to disparagingly as "Moonies" say the church's goal is to build a kingdom of heaven on earth and inspire people to follow the ideology of self-sacrifice.

    The church performed its first mass wedding in 1961 with 35 couples.


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