=== Aum Shinrikyo
1. Memorial held for sarin victims; bitterness lingers
2. Sarin gas victims press for state help
3. Group urges state to aid survivors of sarin gassing

=== Falun Gong
4. Sect ban pressure is denied by Tung

=== Falun Gong - China's Government-Controlled Media
5. Reports from China's government-controlled media
6. Religion, cult different terms

=== Scientology
7. Cruise Dogged by Scientology Split Rumors
8. Columbine Counselor's Teen Sex Abuse Prompts CCHR's New Website Tracking System of Mental Health Criminals

=== Islam
9. Call to spread Islam's message on tolerance
10. Taliban Bans New Year's Celebration

=== Catholicism
11. Report: Priests, Missionaries Sexually Abuse Nuns
12. Reports of abuse

=== Mormonism
13. Mormons' Long, Strange Trip to the Mainstream

=== Hate Groups
14. Judge Sentences Supremacist Pastor in Abduction of Grandchildren.
15. Racist church heads to court
16. Calif. Supremacist Pleads Guilty
17. Brown Students Steal Univ. Paper
18. Brown Protest Targets Ad
19. State House passes hate-crimes measure
20. Germany Won't Stop Yahoo! Auction

=== House of Prayer, Atlanta
21. Pastor, 5 followers arrested in child beatings
22. Defendants have criminal records
23. Church faces abuse probe over whipping of children

=== John and Carrie Davis
24. Jailed father found dead
25. Torture suspect 'upbeat' before his death

=== Recovered Memory Therapy
26. New trial ordered in recovered-memory case
27. Brain: Some choose to lose memory

=== Other News
28. End Near For Ex-Devil Church
29. Some in Egypt shun religious freedom panel
30. Three held for distributing Christian literature

=== Science
31. Skull may alter theory of human evolution

=== Death Penalty & Other Human Rights Violations
32. Convicted Killer is Freed After His Sister Finds DNA Evidence
33. Judge bans use of electric chair

=== Noted
34. Worshippers in Paris flock to Afro-Christian cults
35. Exorcism thriving in Australia
36. A Herd of Psychics on Larry King
37. When a body can be worth $220,000

=== Books
38. Sects, death and the spirit of the age
39. Mainstream Publishers Get Religion for Christian Audience
40. Take a Web site test on religion


=== Falun Gong

4. Sect ban pressure is denied by Tung
Hong Kong iMail (Hong Kong), Mar. 21, 2001
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Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa denied yesterday he was under pressure from Beijing to legislate against the Falun Gong-but refused to say whether he would enact any law against ``evil cults''.

Instead, he reiterated the government would observe the sect's activities closely, and would not allow anyone to abuse Hong Kong's ``freedom and tolerance'' to affect public peace and order in either the SAR or on the mainland.

Mr Tung was speaking in Tokyo after arriving there for a three-day visit.

Journalists quizzed him about a newspaper report that Beijing officials had been pressing the SAR to enact a law curbing the Falun Gong before President Jiang Zemin arrives for an official visit in May.

``The Central Government did not give me any pressure,'' Mr Tung said.

But he added the public was aware the Falun Gong had created social instability, that belief in the cult had destroyed families and that some had set fire to themselves.

Mr Tung is believed to have ruled out enacting a law because time is too short before May, and because he is unwilling to make any such a move as it might damage his image ahead of next year's Chief Executive election.

The government is expected, instead, to stop granting the sect any venues to hold activities in May, keep a close watch on whether it violates the Societies Ordinance or the Public Order Ordinance, and ban ``troublemakers'' from entering Hong Kong during the president's visit.

The Security Bureau, headed by Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee, is also believed to be ready to ban the sect as soon as there is evidence it has breached the terms of its registration under the Societies Ordinance.
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