Don’t Be Silent During 2025 War of Ideas

With the Mother of Peace detained, it’s a time for conviction, courage, faith, making your voice heard! Don’t be silent!

Extracts from a message delivered by Rev. Demian Dunkley, President of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification in North America, on 4th November 2025 outside the Seoul Detention Center, South Korea, where Mother Han is being detained. Transcribed from video originally posted by The Monarch Report 4th Nov. 2025.

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It all starts with my conviction.

What are we doing here? What is Mother doing here [in the detention center]? Is it right or not? If it’s not right, then why?

And we can analyze all of the motivations and all of the issues, but right now, we have the Mother of Peace in the detention center and the Korean government, the Korean prosecutors are making a martyr out of her. Is that really a time to be quiet?

I’m telling you, when Mother says to us, “Don’t worry about me, just worry about one another,” I’m telling you now as a man, as a brother, as a son, and as the chairman and president of the Church in America and Continental Director of the USA and Canada, I’m telling you, “This is not a time to not worry about Mother!”

In that sense, we should stand up and we should speak up. We should have our conviction. It starts with my conviction.

Who is she? If I’m clear who she is, then how on earth could it possibly be okay for her to be stuck in there [the detention center]?

It’s not okay.

And yes, we should make our families and our communities loving environments, and we should, you know, go about our daily lives.

And you know what? Sometimes I’m thinking when I’m going about my daily life, which is constantly working on this situation, I’m sitting in a restaurant, or I’m sitting in a hotel, or I’m sitting back home and I’m eating a hot plate of food that Mother can’t have.

And I’m thinking, “Demian, is it really okay for you to sit here and eat this meal?”

And what occurs to me is, yes, because you have to eat well, you have to rest your body because you are in the middle of a war. We are fighting a war.

But it’s not just a war of guns and bullets, or it’s not even a legal war. It’s a war of ideas.

How is it possible that so many people around the world still do not understand the time we’re living in and who she is?

I believe who she is. And I really have never been in this kind of situation. I couldn’t imagine ever being in this kind of situation.

But it starts with my conviction. Holy Mother Han, the Mother of Peace, God‘s Only Begotten Daughter, True Mother, Dr. Hak Ja Han, that same little girl that was barely six or seven years old when she risked her life with her mother and grandmother to cross the Korean border between north and south so that they could physically survive long enough, so that she could dedicate her entire life to preserving herself or her entire life to living for the sake of humanity.

Surely you can recognize she’s that kind of a person.

So why is she here [in the detention center]? Is she the mastermind of some devious criminal idea to take over Korea through subversive acts? Really?

The only thing Mother is guilty of is loving God and being willing to risk her entire life to manifest that love, guilty of loving God and feeling and believing with all of her might God‘s dream and being willing to give her entire life to realizing that dream. She can’t do it alone. She needs to do it with us.

And so those of us who have been touched by the True Parents’ love, who have been touched by the True Parents’ blessing, whether you’re standing up in your nation, or whether you’re coming here to visit and to pray outside the detention center, or maybe even have a chance to glimpse Mother, we don’t know how many days, how many weeks or even months – years maybe – this kind of situation can continue.

So how long before we stand up, and we say, “Release the Mother of Peace!”?

Because this is completely incorrect, unnecessary overstepping, unfair treatment, unprecedented selective prosecution is called persecution.

And when it’s towards a religious leader who’s being stopped and blocked from leading a worldwide religious movement, that’s called religious persecution.

And when members in this church, in this country feel unsafe to speak to the media or unsafe to speak to their neighbors about what’s happening, that’s the effect of religious persecution.

When individual freedoms and rights are suppressed, that’s not called freedom. It’s called repression when you’re denied your individual rights to believe and to stand in your faith.

They’re not saying, “You’re wrong to believe what you believe. You just did this, so you’re now having to pay this price.”

No. But the result of their action is that our members in Korea are afraid. Our leaders are afraid.

So what will you do? What will I do? I’m telling you, as an American member and as the leader of the North American continent, I’m not going to be quiet. I’m not going to shut up.

I don’t have to be rude about it. I don’t have to be aggressive about it, but I’m going to be alive about it. In my conviction, this is not right. It’s got to change.

And there should be none of us that are satisfied until this problem is solved. Yes.

In the meantime, we should eat. Yes.

In the meantime, we should love one another. Yes.

In the meantime, we should create sanctuaries in our church where many people want to come. Why?

Because the more they push Mother down, the more we will rise up. The more they try to shut her voice down, the more her dream and her voice will be heard.

Because it’s God‘s dream, which means it’s your dream and my dream and it’s worth fighting for.

If it’s worth her being stuck in that detention center, crawling on her hands and knees, eating crappy food, if it’s worth her, the Mother of Peace, being in that to prove it, then what would it take for us to stand up?

What is it worth for us? What is it worth for us to stand up and say it?

It starts with my conviction. It starts with your conviction.

Do you believe God? Do you feel the grace and love of God? Do you believe that Father and Mother are people who have given their entire lives to something that’s worth fighting for?

Until now, when she is 82, almost 83, she is still fighting for it under these circumstances.

So, yes, we should go about our daily lives and build our communities, but not with some kind of attitude taht everything’s going to be okay, just let it go its course.

No, we need to build our communities because thousands and millions of people are going to want to ask you, find you, because they’re going to be interested.

The more they push her down, the more people will be curious. The more they silence her, the more God‘s voice will be heard.

So get your homes ready! Get your communities ready!

And in the meantime, yes, get online! Because we are an online ministry now. We are online missionaries now. Not missionaries in sackcloth clothing holding candles, in prayer only. We are out there like warriors telling people the truth.

We are at war. And it’s a war of ideas.

So what is your idea? It has to come from your conviction. It has to come from my conviction. So we have to get our minds straight, get our words straight and then speak up. Don’t be quiet! Speak up! […] I don’t know how many people are standing up.

Stand up! Stand up with me! Follow me! Let’s create an online army of missionaries who are fighting in this war of ideas!

It’s a war of ideas, okay? And it’s not about politics. It’s really about, “Are we children of God or not? Are we willing to stand up for God or not? Not in an isolated way, but in a together way and in a beautiful, harmonious way!”

That’s what I wanted to say.

Faith! Freedom! Peace! Release the Mother of Peace right now!

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Featured image above: Rev. Demian Dunkley, President of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification in North America, delivering his message on 4th November 2025 outside the Seoul Detention Center, South Korea. Screenshot from video by FFWPU

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