Type | Non-profit organization |
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Purpose | Advocacy, education |
Headquarters | Korea |
Region served | Worldwide (as of late 2021 in nine countries) |
Website | www |
The Doalnara Restoration Society was established in South Korea in 1980 in accordance with the teachings of Teacher Suk Sun. [1]
Doalnara (which means "Stone Country" in Korean) refers to a society of people with similar goals, whose characters are firm and whose hearts are unchanging as stone. [2] Doalnara developed 10 organic farms in Korea; and there are also Doalnara branches outside of Korea, in the United States, Japan, China, the Philippines, Kenya, Brazil, and more. [3]
Additionally, as a religious organization, it is named the Ten Commandments Stone National Assembly and is a newly emerging religious group. Many members of the Ten Commandments Stone National Assembly live in religious communities in rural areas. In South Korea, the Protestant community considers Dolnara to be a heretical group. [4]
As a religious organization, it initially began in 1984 with the leader Park Myung-ho (real name: Park Kwang-kyu), who came out of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and started under the name Elijah Gospel Missionary Society. In 1994, claiming that North Korea would invade the South, all members were relocated to rural villages as a refuge, and it was declared a religious community, transitioning into a reclusive religious community. [5] At this time, the name of the religious organization was also changed to 'Dolnara Hanong Restoration Association.' Subsequently, on July 2, 2000, through a sermon titled 'When the Holy Spirit Comes Upon Me,' Park Myung-ho announced a new ideology called the 'Harlot's Cross,' which claimed to give birth to a new Jesus Christ in unity with himself. [6]
In 2017, it was reported that members of this organization were relocating to a farm in Bahia, Brazil. JTBC also reported human rights violations during the relocation process. In the first trial, Dolnara partially won a correction request against JTBC, but in the second trial, JTBC's reports were deemed entirely correct, overturning Dolnara's partial victory and deciding in favor of JTBC. This decision was confirmed by the Supreme Court on April 1, 2021.In April 2022, a tragic accident occurred at the Dolnara Oasis Farm (Fazenda Doalnara Oasis) in Brazil during septic tank construction, where five Korean children were buried and killed by a collapsing mound of earth. [7] [8]
During the time, construction was underway for installing a septic tank. However, children playing near the construction site were caught in a sudden landslide, resulting in a tragic accident. There were no basic safety measures in place to prevent access to the site. In July 2022, Brazilian police indicted a key figure from the Dole Nara Hanon Restoration Society, applying charges under Article 121, Paragraph 3 of the Brazilian Penal Code for involuntary manslaughter. The Brazilian Ministry of Public Labor is also continuing its investigation into potential child labor or neglect. Separately, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics reportedly assessed the overall conditions of the Dole Nara Hanon Restoration Society last month, examining aspects such as education, income levels, and birth and death rates. [9]
The troubling aspect is that the child deaths were not merely accidental. According to JTBC, after the children's funerals, the Doalnara Restoration Society sent a Telegram message to its members, stating, "Through the funeral of the five warriors, we have offered the highest offering to the victors of the universe." Additionally, an audio recording was released in which a farm official claimed, "The sacrifice of our young children has united Doalnara, making us inseparable and stronger with the Lord. Can the media or broadcasters even dare call us a cult?" [10]
Doalnara's principles are based on lessons by Teacher Suk Sun, whose teachings include:
First: When you trace back to the origins and root of humanity, we all came from the same parents and are one family. This is not just a sentiment or theory.
Second: All of humanity's countless troubles and problems originate from our hearts. Eliminating selfishness in the heart will change the earth into a happier world.
Third: The true happiness humanity seeks is fulfilled when our household becomes a “mini-heaven”. Not when we "go to" heaven.
Doalnara keeps the Decalogue, or Ten Commandments, but the commandments are simplified into an easier-to-understand sentence: “With your heart, love your Heavenly Real Parents who begot you, and do not fight with your brethren but live happily.” Doalnara communities do not have or support the use of alcohol, tobacco, violence, verbal and physical abuse, agricultural chemicals, chemical additives, and the like.
Doalnara members observe the Sabbath, from Friday evening to Saturday evening, in accordance with the fourth commandment. [12]
All Doalnara regions throughout the world adhere to agricultural practices that value the soil and seek to understand nature (instead of using conventional agricultural practices which has a propensity to focus on convenience and economics). Instead of using chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and/or herbicides, Doalnara only uses organic farming methods with environmental restoration as its highest priority. As a result, all products grown by Doalnara are free from agricultural chemicals. [13]
Doalnara members eat foods grown from unharmed and unsprayed soil. Besides sharing and consuming fresh foods, by research and development, Doalnara also uses its produce to make various health food products.
In the 2000s, Park Myung-ho promoted the doctrine of the ‘prostitute cross’ as a virtual ‘license to rape’ and went on to sexually exploit female believers ‘for the salvation and prosperity of mankind.’ He also educated children born among believers and those who were children at the time of the evacuation in his own boarding school, calling them ‘Dolnara II’. At boarding school, they only focused on learning Park Myung-ho's sermons and only taught math at the basic arithmetic level, and the rest of the time was filled with labor. Children had to eat raw food and if they did not follow strict rules, they had to be beaten to the point where their flesh exploded. This was the same for adults, and the doctrine of ‘no pregnancy’ was applied until Park Myung-ho saw his grandchild, forcing male believers to undergo vasectomy. He effectively sexually exploited both men and women. [14]
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