Mother of Abe killing suspect is a Unification Church member, church says

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TOKYO: The mother of the man arrested for the killing of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is a member of the Unification Church, the church's Japan head said on Monday (Jul 11).

is a member of the Unification Church, the church's Japan head said on Monday .

Yamagami believed Abe had promoted a religious group to which his mother made a"huge donation", Kyodo news agency has said, citing investigative sources. Yamagami told police hisTomihiro Tanaka, president of the Japan branch of Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, known as the Unification Church, told reporters at a briefing in Tokyo that Yamagami's mother was a member of the church. He did not give her name.

Reuters was not immediately able to contact Yamagami's mother and could not determine whether she belonged to any other religious organisations. Yamagami's mother first joined the church around 1998 but stopped attending in a period between 2009 and 2017, Tanaka said. About two to three years ago she re-established communication with church members and in the last half year or so has been attending church events at a frequency of about once a month, he said.

 

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统一教会会员一般上都是韩国人

Why should he assain abe does he want revenge or what?

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