=== 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 - China's Government-Controlled Media

5. Reports from China's government-controlled media

* China's government-controlled media has, in recent days, published dozens
of items denouncing Falun Gong. As these items are essentially press
releases meant as propaganda rather than news reporting, there is little
to be gained by including all of them in RNR. Those interested may access
the reports via this Falun Gong news page


6. Religion, cult different terms
China Daily - North American Edition, Mar. 21, 2001
http://beta.yellowbrix.com/
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Religion and cult seem to be two words that some US politicians do not separate when using them in relation to other countries.

On March 14, a human rights organization called the US Freedom House recognized Falun Gong as ''China's defender of religious rights'' at a ceremony attended by some US Congress members.

''There is no religious freedom there, only religious persecution,'' the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Jesse Helms was quoted as saying by Reuters.

Helms' unfounded words exposed his ignorance of China's religious freedom policy and spoke volumes for the deep-rooted discrimination against China.

Since the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, the Chinese Government has been pursuing a religious freedom policy. Under this, the Chinese people have freedom to believe or not to believe in any religion.
(...)

The Freedom House's recognition of Falun Gong and four other groups for defending religious rights only attest to some China- bashers' desires to interfere in China's internal affairs and to portray the Chinese Government in the worst possible light.

This could have a ripple effect and encourage evil cults to flourish throughout the world.
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