21.   The mass wedding was widely condemned by Philippine officials, who claimed the church was recruiting Filipino sex partners and domestic servants for Korean men.

22.   The National Bureau of Investigation is investigating a mass wedding sponsored by the Unification Church to see if the rights of Filipino women were violated, officials said Thursday.

23.   The Unification Church periodically stages mass weddings for hundreds of couples.

24.   The Unification Church periodically stages mass weddings for hundreds of couples, many of them unions between strangers arranged by Moon.

25.   Their mass wedding was part of official festivities, along with a parade and outdoor concerts.

26.   When the charity throws a mass wedding, couples take religious vows of matrimony, then gather for public banquets held in state-owned sports centers.

27.   According to a spokesman this is his first visit to South Korea since an earlier mass wedding two years ago.

28.   The source charged the mass wedding was merely a ploy to recruit Filipina workers.

29.   Verceles earlier said the Moonies may have violated a law against mail-order brides for arranging the mass wedding.

30.   Many brides and grooms said the idea of a mass wedding had appealed to them and their parents.