解散命令請求、２５日に判断か　東京地裁が旧統一教会側に連絡

　世界平和統一家庭連合（旧統一教会）を巡る解散命令請求について、東京地裁が教団側に２５日に同地裁へ来るよう伝えたことが２２日、関係者への取材で分かった。請求に対しての判断が示されるとみられる。
　２０２２年７月の安倍晋三元首相銃撃事件の後、文部科学省は教団に報告徴収・質問権を７回行使するとともに、１７０人を超える元信者らから聞き取りをするなどして証拠を集め、２３年１０月に解散命令を請求。同地裁は非公開で審問を４回開き、現役信者らを証人尋問するなど審理を進めていた。（2025/03/22-20:01）

Tokyo District Court has told the Unification Church to come to the court on Tuesday over the request for an order to dissolve the religious group, informed sources said Saturday.
   The court is expected to present its decision on the request.
   The fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July 2022 shed light on the Unification Church's controversial practices, such as collecting massive donations from its followers. Abe's alleged killer told investigators that he thought the former prime minister had ties with the Unification Church, against which the accused had a grudge due to his mother being a follower.
   After the incident, the culture ministry exercised its right to collect reports from and question the Unification Church seven times, collected evidence by interviewing more than 170 former believers and asked Tokyo District Court in October 2023 to issue an order to dissolve the religious group, formally called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. The court held four hearings behind closed doors and questioned active believers as witnesses.
   The ministry said the Unification Church's followers have repeatedly committed illegal acts, such as hiding their backgrounds to solicit people to make large donations to the group by stirring up their anxiety, since around 1980 at the latest, claiming that this constituted grounds for dissolution under the religious corporation law.