CAUSA International is an anti-communist

Anti-communism

Anti-communism is opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed in reaction to the rise of communism, especially after the 1917 October Revolution in Russia and the beginning of the Cold War in 1947.-Objections to communist theory:...

 educational organization created in New York City in 1980 by members of the Unification Church

Unification Church

The Unification Church is a new religious movement founded by Korean religious leader Sun Myung Moon. In 1954, the Unification Church was formally and legally established in Seoul, South Korea, as The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity . In 1994, Moon gave the church...

 at the suggestion of Rev. Sun Myung Moon

Sun Myung Moon

Sun Myung Moon is the Korean founder and leader of the worldwide Unification Church. He is also the founder of many other organizations and projects...

. CAUSA was an acronym for "Confederation of the Associations for the Unification of the Societies of the Americas", and is also Spanish for "cause." In the 1980s CAUSA International was active in 21 countries. In the United States it sponsored educational conferences for evangelical and fundamentalist

Fundamentalist Christianity

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 Christian leaders as well as seminars and conferences for Senate

United States Senate

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 staffers, Hispanic Americans

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 and conservative activists. In 1986 it produced the anti-Communist documentary film Nicaragua Was Our Home

Nicaragua Was Our Home

Nicaragua Was Our Home is a 1986 documentary about the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua and their asserted persecution at the hands of the Nicaraguan government, filmed and produced by Lee Shapiro, a member of the Unification Church with funding from CAUSA International...

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CAUSA International promotes a worldview which it calls "Godism" as an alternative to Marxism

Marxism

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. People of all religions are welcome to take part in CAUSA activities. Donald Sills, a fundamentalist Christian pastor and CAUSA organizer, said:

"Our organization is very simply an independent educational operation. The coalition is not classified as a Christian or even a religious organization so much as it is a First Amendment organization."

CAUSA International has been criticized for promoting the beliefs of the Unification Church, which many Christians consider to be heretical

Heresy

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. Connaught Marshner, executive vice-president of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, said:

"They're not on our team because they don't have the same agenda. They've said things suggesting that their goal is to take over the U.S. government. Catholics, Mormons, and Protestants don't say that."

External links

• CAUSA International official site