Religious leaders who met President Lee Jae-myung cited Shincheonji and the Unification Church and proposed dissolving cults and heretical religious groups.
Spokesperson Kang Yu-jung said on the afternoon of the 12th that at a luncheon meeting between President Lee Jae-myung and religious leaders, the heads of the seven major domestic religious orders strongly criticized the harms of cults and heretical religions and formally proposed dissolving religious groups that harm the state and the people and providing relief to victims by recovering the asset of those groups.
The seven major religious orders that attended the event that day were Buddhism, Protestantism, Catholicism, Won Buddhism, Confucianism, Cheondoism, and ethnic religions.
The religious leaders said, "Beyond collusion between religion and politics, we must deal strictly with practices that cause great harm to citizens' lives and restore the relationship in which religion once again brings happiness to the people," and added, "The people will also agree with the dissolution of religious groups that harm the state and the people. Please also consider ways to use the asset of problematic religious foundations to provide relief to victims of cults."
In response, Lee said, "It is indeed a difficult subject, but the harm it inflicts on our society has been left unattended for too long, and the damage is very great."