19 Facts About Dan Fefferman

Daniel G Fefferman is a church leader and activist for the freedom of religion.

Dan Fefferman is a member of the Unification Church of the United States, a branch of the international Unification Church founded by Sun Myung Moon in South Korea in 1954.

Dan Fefferman was leader of the Unification Church in Illinois, regional director for the Unification Church for the Midwestern United States, the headquarters director of Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles and editor of the national journal of the Unification Church.

Dan Fefferman became a member of the Unification Church in 1968.

Dan Fefferman is married with two daughters, and lives in Washington, DC, with his family.

In 1974, Dan Fefferman was the executive director of the National Prayer and Fast Committee, a group organized by Sun Myung Moon to support Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.

Dan Fefferman was an official with the Freedom Leadership Foundation, which was founded by Moon, and deemed a "political arm" of the Unification Church.

Dan Fefferman testified in August 1977 before the Fraser Committee, a subcommittee of the United States House of Representatives which investigated possible ties between Sun Myung Moon and the South Korean National Intelligence Service.

Testimony from Dan Fefferman confirmed that he had social ties to officials within the South Korean embassy.

Dan Fefferman testified that he had arranged a meeting in 1975 between Republican aide Edwin Feulner of the Heritage Foundation and South Korean Minister Kim Yung Hwan, to potentially put together a group of congressional aides who would travel to South Korea.

The subcommittee recommended that Dan Fefferman be cited for contempt of Congress.

Dan Fefferman, speaking to The Michigan Daily in 1980, said the subcommittee's recommendations were never taken up, and no charges were pressed.

In 1977 Dan Fefferman served as leader of the Unification Church in the state of Illinois, as well as regional church director for the Midwestern United States.

Dan Fefferman was the editor of the national journal of the Unification Church in 1989, and served as chief editor of the first edition of Divine Principle in English, as well as other Unification Church publications.

In 2016 Dan Fefferman gave a presentation at a conference held by CESNUR, a non-profit organization which both studies and advocates for the religious freedom of new religious movements, on the divisions within the Unification Church since Sun Myung Moon's death in 2012.

Since 1984, Dan Fefferman has been the executive director of the Unification Church affiliated organization the International Coalition for Religious Freedom in Virginia, which is active in protesting what it considers to be threats to religious freedom by governmental agencies.

In 2000, Dan Fefferman wrote to his colleagues about the Million Family March, planned to be held in Washington, DC, and sponsored by Moon and Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, acknowledging that the two leaders' views differed on multiple issues but shared a view of a "God-centered family".

In 2004 Dan Fefferman said that religious persecution of Muslims is probably under reported due to the fact that many victims are refugees, in both Muslim and non-Muslim countries.

Dan Fefferman gave a presentation on the Unification Church at a conference of the International Cultic Studies Association in 2004.