Newlyweds celebrate during a mass wedding ceremony at Sun Moon University in Asan, south of Seoul October 14, 2009. About 5,000 couples from 120 countries around the world exchanged wedding vows on Wednesday, the church said. The Unification Church founded by South Korean evangelist Reverend Moon Sun-myung in Seoul in 1954, performed its first mass wedding in 1961 with 33 couples. [Agencies]
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