“group without a church”について

次は、Economistの最新の記事です。

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The United Nations

Mission impossible?
Jan 4th 2007
From The Economist print edition

As Ban Ki-moon takes charge at the United Nations, we look at the prospects for this troubled body and for its peacekeeping efforts round the world

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Mr Ban now picks up the baton. As a member of a “group without a church”—a Christian organisation that emerged in Japan in the early 20th century, whose adherents make the Gospel a source of inspiration for their private and public life—the UN's first Asian secretary-general in 35 years has described himself as “a man on a mission”, keen to restore trust between member states and the secretariat, between rich and poor countries, and in the discredited organisation itself. He hoped, he joked to journalists last month, that this would not prove a “Mission Impossible”. The world will hope so, too.

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この文章中、“group without a church”について調べましたがよくわかりません。
統一教会のことを指すのか、無教会派キリスト教をさすのかわかりません。

重要な情報ですので、正確に理解したいと思います。詳しい方教えて下さい。

No.1 ベストアンサー 回答者： wuyan 回答日時： 2007/01/05 17:17

emerged in Japan in the early 20th century

という部分に統一教会は該当しないと思われます。
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B5%B1%E4%B8%80% …

該当するのは無教会主義でしょう。
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%84%A1%E6%95%99% …

No.2 回答者： joshsan 回答日時： 2007/01/07 01:06

No.1さんの指摘どおり、無教会キリスト教です。

http://blogs.salon.com/0003494/2006/10/09.html