=== 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

=== Scientology

7. Cruise Dogged by Scientology Split Rumors
Mr. Showbiz, Mar. 20, 2001
http://mrshowbiz.go.com/
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A persistent rumor that Tom Cruise has severed his ties with the Church of Scientology has resurfaced, and though the actor has silenced past reports with threats of legal action, that hasn't stopped various outlets from running the newest gossip.
(...)

''Tom remains a Scientologist,'' Cruise attorney Burt Fields told the New York Daily News today. ''He has not come anywhere close to leaving the church.''

Calls to Cruise's publicist were not returned.

Last year, Fields got US Weekly to print a retraction after it reported that Cruise had left the church.
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8. Columbine Counselor's Teen Sex Abuse Prompts CCHR's New Website Tracking System of Mental Health Criminals
PRNewswire, Mar. 21, 2001 (Caution: Scientology front group press release)
http://news.excite.com/
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LOS ANGELES, March 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Patient rape, sodomy, child pornography, assault, murder and fraud committed by licensed mental health professionals, are just some of the shocking but factual revelations made public in a hard-hitting report released on the web today by international psychiatric watchdog organization, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR).
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CCHR is a Scientology front group and can thus not be relied on to provide accurate information. The group has a record of hate and harassment.

:===Begin Quote===
It is absolutely remarkable that an organisation which stands accused of so many human rights violations itself should spawn a pressure group with this name. As Richard Behar wrote in TIME,

''The disingenuously named Citizens Commission on Human Rights is a
Scientology group at war with psychiatry, its primary competitor. The
commission typically issues reports aimed at discrediting particular
psychiatrists and the field in general. The CCHR is also behind an all-out
war against Eli Lilly, the maker of Prozac, the nation's top-selling
antidepression drug. Despite scant evidence, the group's members -- who call
themselves ''psychbusters'' -- claim that Prozac drives people to murder or
suicide. Through mass mailings, appearances on talk shows and heavy lobbying,
CCHR has hurt drug sales and helped spark dozens of lawsuits against Lilly.''
Source: TIME Magazine, May 6, 1991 page 50: Special Report (cover story)
Copyright © 1991 TIME Magazine
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