He attempted to commit suicide several times, but one day his elder sister took him to a Korean healing evangelist, after which he claimed his illnesses disappeared.

[15] Lee travelled extensively in different parts of the world, initiating Christian events and so-called crusades in several countries.

[16] In 2001, Lee travelled in Kenya,[17] and in September 2001, he visited the Philippines to lead the Church Leaders Conference and Healing Crusade.

[21] In 2003, a government official arranged for a Christian prayer and healing "festival" at the Dubai Handicapped Club in the United Arab Emirates.

[23] In October 2004, Lee visited Germany to lead The 2004 German United Crusade and the event was broadcast through Classics TV in UK, CNL in Kazakhstan, RTVA in Spain, and TKV in Russia.

Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo invited Lee to the presidential palace and requested he pray for the economic development and administration of the country.

[25] In December 2005, Lee was denied permission to enter Egypt; he arrived at Cairo International Airport on a Korean Airlines flight with 20 of his members.

[37] The event drew roughly 3,000 attendees from 36 countries to rally for peace in the Middle East;[38] attended by the Israeli minister of tourism Stas Misezhnikov and Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat.

[39] A spokesperson for countermissionary organisation Jewish Israel speculated that Lee's visit was connected to the planned launch of a Russian-language evangelical television station.

[42] Alina Aivazova, wife of Leonid Chernovetskyi, Mayor of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, attended this crusade.

[8] Lee was excommunicated from the Church of Holiness in May 1990, and his organisation was ejected from the Christian Council of Korea in April 1999 over "heretical claims".

In response, 300 Manmin Central Church members invaded the television station, attacking security guards and breaking into the station control room to cut the power, while another 1,500 organised a sit-down protest in a nearby street; 600 riot police were needed to restore order.

[46] MBC filed a lawsuit against the church and 61 people involved in the attack, seeking damages of ₩2.7 billion; the Seoul Southern District Court granted damages in the amount of ₩696 million in November 2000 against the church and some of the participants in the attack, but threw out the case against Lee himself.

[49][50] Estonian singers Tõnis Mägi and Dave Benton were to appear at Lee's Korean Culture Festival event in Estonia in 2010.

The singers were led to believe that the event was sponsored by the South Korean embassy, which turned out to be false, prompting Mägi to cancel his appearance.

He sexually assaulted and repeatedly raped eight women in his congregation, all of whom were in their twenties and had grown up in the Manmin church community.

The court found that the victims felt compelled to submit to Lee's attacks because they believed his claims that he had divine power.

The pastor was sentenced to fifteen years in prison and 80 hours of therapy, and received a decade-long ban on working with minors.

[65][66] In the second volume of My Life, My Faith, Lee wrote about the US, China and the EU and said that in the future, the world would have these three major powers.

In the second volume of Heaven, Lee writes that the combination of twelve precious stones represents the heart of Jesus Christ and God.

The entire physical space including our Earth, our Solar System, our Galaxy, and the whole universe is referred to as the first heaven.

[79][85] My Father Will Give to You in My Name is a compilation of messages and Lee claims that this book will enable the reader to understand "the law of the spiritual realm" on receiving answers from God.